Indledning
Can the relationship between parents and teenagers be described as a tragedy or just a natural development?
This issue is explored in Rachel Cusk’s article “Mothers and teenagers: a modern tragedy” published in The Times 5th April 2015.
This article is mainly focusing on the mother-daughter relationship, and throughout the article, Rachel Cusk is trying to create an understanding of both sides of the relationship.
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Uddrag
Rachel Cusk’s writing style is substantially informal with a few formal elements, which serves the purpose, of making her seem more credible as a writer.
Throughout the article, she uses a range of similes to create a vivid and figurative language: “She makes a noise of exasperation, and her temper instantly rises, like mercury shooting up in a thermometer.” (p. 1, l. 22).
In this quote, we see an explicit comparison because of the word ‘like’. Obviously, the similes in the article help the readers to create images, and therefore better understand the events Rachel Cusk talks about.
This is also supported by the fact that she uses a lot of adjectives: “She is 14 and has countless friends, most of them white-skinned and fair, with declarative middle-class voices and abundant shining waterfalls of hair.” (p. 3, l. 145).
In this way, Rachel Cusk appeals to the readers by describing her daughter’s behavior and her own friend’s response to raising a teenager.
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