Kiu Hifo Stephanie Velona English 101 9 March 2015
Rise at a Young Age Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude by Nathan Robin is an essay from the Wall Street Journal on February 19, 2011. Nathan Robin is the head writer for “A.V. Club,” the entertainment section of the Onion (481). In this essay, Robin aims to convince his readers that men in their 20’s can accomplish great things. The idea of being young and creative is what Robin emphasizes in the essay. It is interesting what Robin uses to persuade his readers about the idea of being young and creative. Robin uses a movie, and four men, who are billionaires today, and his own personal experience as examples to persuade his readers. In the beginning of the article, Robin He also claims that College is also a place for experimentation, for reflection, for figuring out who you are and what you want to do in life”. Two of the examples support this claim because that is when the six men founded their success in life. Their success began in college. The ethos of the argument relates to the movie in how the movie depicts a message that not everyone will realize when they see it. He also lacks the counter argument, and does not explain it. The essay was in the same edition as Kay S. Hymowitz’s Where Have the Good Men Gone? If Robin included some of the information from Hymowitz’s essay, then that could support more of the ethos of the argument. Robin’s use of pathos is how he uses some question to get the reader thinking because that is what happened to me. The questions that caught my attention are “Do we really want more generations of 23-year-old men who drink themselves to sleep every night dreaming about what they might have done if they hadn’t gotten married and had kids right out of school? Do we want to repeat the mistakes of our fathers or learn from them?” Again, Robin argues that men in their 20’s and not married can achieve great things. There is nothing wrong with marriage. Marriage can slow down a man at a young age. That is what I got from Robin’s essay. If men in their 20’s attended college, they can find out so much about themselves and set goals in life. Robin’s argument was directed to both men and women. Robin’s
