rhetorical analysis

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The audience for this sign is any teenager and I also think any parent who has a teenager. The author is probably a parent who has gone through those wonderful teenager years. The purpose is to make a point that teenagers do not know everything and even though they complain about being “harassed” by their parents than they should move out. Most parents would probably like their teenager to move out and get a job and not have to worry about them. Especially since most teenagers do act like “know it all” and probably talk back to their parents.

This sign was very interesting and funny. It is almost mocking teenagers because we do act like we could just do whatever we want and we can just move out if we want to and we do not have to depend on our parents. The truth is though that most teenagers would not know the first thing of depending on themselves. So maybe teenagers should not give their parents such a hard time and think that parents harass them because most teenagers depend on their parents.

I am not saying every teenager. I was working 50 hours a week my junior and senior years of high school. Also I started working for my parents when I was twelve, back then it was just a summer job but as I grew up and learned more and more of all the businesses I ran more and more of all the businesses. My senior year consisted of me flying here and there for meetings or openings of certain buildings of ours, of being a personal assistant to my father who was founder and boss man of all of his businesses all over the southwest region. Because my parents are very goal oriented and their corporations are huge it does take up a lot of their time and mostly I was on my own.

This sign is not meant for all teenagers because there are the exceptions just like in everything there is always that exception. This sign was just interesting because it hits it dead on. Teenagers think they can just do these things because they don’t like parents rules but most parents would be happy for their teenagers to accomplish these things.