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Essay / Analysis of “The Captive Generation” by Kathryn Tyler
The motifs Tyler uses to support his enthymeme throughout his story show a great use of evidence. The reasons are sufficient because Tyler gives enough to support his claim and show the point of his argument. His goal in using these specific motifs is to show his audience why millennials are struggling in the job market and why they are unprepared for the real world. The arguments Tyler uses are typical, such as when she talks about how millennials don't have friends outside of their generation. People can still see this happening today where they only have friends their own age. Another example is when she mentions helicopter parents and how they constantly make decisions for their children well into adulthood, and defend them instead of letting them figure it out. These typical proof examples are well used. Millennials may be seen hanging out only with people their own age or staying in touch only with people their own age. Helicopter parents are still typical because of the technology they have to maintain control over their young adult children. Tyler came up with these reasons in 2007, but they are still relevant today, in 2016. Technology continues to advance, so millennials will only have peers their own age and their parents will keep control of their young adult children. These motives are also relevant because teachers and bosses at work witness them. Teachers confront students' parents because they think they are being harsh on them (Tyler 479). At work, bosses still have to deal with parents showing up for an interview with their child or showing up with them for their first day of work (Tyler 480). These are things that HR professionals are aware of and try to learn to manage, because it is