Kids In The Mall: Growing Up Controlled By William Severini Kowinski
Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled
The essay Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled, was written by William Severini Kowinski. Kowinski is examining the reasons for “mall culture” in this essay that he took from his book The Malling of America. Kowinski uses certain tones, word choice, and ordering is his essay to make it more appealing for his audience. The tone of the essay Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled, is one of the keys to pulling off a good appealing essay. Then there is the word choice Kowinski goes with which goes with the tone he uses a little and makes it easier to read and more appealing to his readers. Last there is the order in which Kowinski explains the essay and makes his points.
The tone of the essay Kids …show more content…
In the beginning of the essay he talks about all of the bad things that could happen to kids when their parents just leave them at the mall alone. For example he starts off his essay with a quote that talks about an experience a kid had about his parents leaving him at the mall because they had other things to do. This shocks people when reading it and makes people think it is a horrible thing to leave your kids at the mall. He says things like they could lose their virginities in the mall parking lot, he also talks about how kids being in the mall for these long periods of time can change the ways of their family life, their sexual mores, and their social ramifications. Then when skipping over to the end of the essay he starts putting more positive effects that could happen from leaving kids at the mall, also that it might not be such a bad place after all to leave kids when parents have to work. Kowinski says, “The mall itself may very well be an education about the future” (104). so he does have good things to say about leaving your kids at the mall. The reason for Kowinski putting the positive effects that can accrue from leaving parents leaving kids at the mall is to persuade the readers that it really is not such a bad thing to leave your kids at the
The essay Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled, was written by William Severini Kowinski. Kowinski is examining the reasons for “mall culture” in this essay that he took from his book The Malling of America. Kowinski uses certain tones, word choice, and ordering is his essay to make it more appealing for his audience. The tone of the essay Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled, is one of the keys to pulling off a good appealing essay. Then there is the word choice Kowinski goes with which goes with the tone he uses a little and makes it easier to read and more appealing to his readers. Last there is the order in which Kowinski explains the essay and makes his points.
The tone of the essay Kids …show more content…
In the beginning of the essay he talks about all of the bad things that could happen to kids when their parents just leave them at the mall alone. For example he starts off his essay with a quote that talks about an experience a kid had about his parents leaving him at the mall because they had other things to do. This shocks people when reading it and makes people think it is a horrible thing to leave your kids at the mall. He says things like they could lose their virginities in the mall parking lot, he also talks about how kids being in the mall for these long periods of time can change the ways of their family life, their sexual mores, and their social ramifications. Then when skipping over to the end of the essay he starts putting more positive effects that could happen from leaving kids at the mall, also that it might not be such a bad place after all to leave kids when parents have to work. Kowinski says, “The mall itself may very well be an education about the future” (104). so he does have good things to say about leaving your kids at the mall. The reason for Kowinski putting the positive effects that can accrue from leaving parents leaving kids at the mall is to persuade the readers that it really is not such a bad thing to leave your kids at the