The Kids Are Really Sort Of Alright Analysis

In “The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright,” an article in The New York Magazine, Noreen Malone tries to explain the ways of the millennial generation to her audience. Malone uses tactics of showing the dialogue of instant messages about this generation. Malone gives statistics of how much this generation has changed in education, jobs, and self-esteem compared to other generations. Another way Malone shows how millennials differ from others is by getting quotes from millennials and comparing them to statistics of past generations. Malone offers powerful support in the form of explaining the changes in the way things are done by millennials compared to past generations, quotes from millennials about their lives, and statistics comparing the past generations to the millennials’. Malone points out the changes in the way millennials do things. People from past generations do not understand why millennials stay at home after they turn 18 and graduate high school, and some have even graduated college. Times have changed in that aspect. It is difficult for graduates to go out and get a job, have a steady paycheck and get a place of their own. Millennials see that staying at home while trying to get a steady job makes sense. Anybody who goes out and just get a job, most of the time feels stuck at the job they get. Millennials know …show more content…
All of the bashing that is done on millennials is brought to point, and then explained why millennials do all the things they do. Malone uses the statistics in her article to show that times are different therefore millennials needed to change their way of life, even if it didn’t make sense to the previous generations. The quotes that Malone got from some of her friends on how things are for them helped bring about the conclusion that things are hard for millennials but they are just trying to make do with the cards they have been