Analysis Of Driven To Distraction By Dave Barry

Can your children get you in a serious trouble and even send you to prison!? Obviously, yes. One such a man, author Dave Barry, wrote “Driven to distraction,” published in December 30, 2001, and he argues that how far it is difficult to satisfy your children’s demands in order to make them joyful and happy. He begins building his credibility with personal facts and successfully employing emotional appeals. In his article, Dave relies on his personal experiences with his daughter and the trouble he got into.
In his article, Dave first sets the stage by describing a specific scenario of nice humorous introduction, when he made the reader imagine himself pulled over by the police for acting like a teapot while driving! This humorous introduction …show more content…
Additionally, he is certain that his audience will, definitely, agree with him. The problem is that in order for his daughter to feel happy, he is required to do what the songs words represent, while driving! Certainly, this can make the police pull him over thinking that he is intoxicated. He tells the reader the incident of the “teapot song” in details. The author uses this very persuasive example and supports his point with several words that show up his suffering. For instance: “So if we 're listening to ' 'I 'm a Little Teapot, ' ' and she notices that I 'm using my arms for some frivolous activity such as steering, she will repeat, ' 'Daddy do it! Daddy do it! ' ' until I let go of the wheel and form my teapot handle and my teapot spout.” The reader can feel sympathy for this miserable father. The author is very smart; by stating this example in addition to another one of his daughter silly songs, he sets the foundation to completely persuade the reader logically. If the reader put himself in the author’s shoes, he can imagine that anyone driving beside him can misunderstand what he is doing, especially the