In the article, “Meet the Twisters”, Levee Grossman explains how the younger generation in our society have a different kind of mindset to establish and accomplish things in life, so he emphasizes a group of people’s character and attitude in a way so it can be relatable to people. The significant of these articles is that they both are written to where the readers are able to relate to it. Groomsman’s statistical and more of a fact filled essay is written to able to fulfill the readers, compared to Sellers article can be put more on a personal end.
The point of these two articles allows the reader to understand the Judgments that people tend to make on others. However, the article, “Meet the Twisters” is more of a convincing article rather than “I’m K, but you’re not. ” In the article, “Meet the Twisters”, Groomsman’s article is focused on our younger generation and how they refuse to grow up. He uses a lot of statistics and facts that can be proven for his article. Multiple interviews for people that were 18 to 29 were taking place to embed facts to back up his theory. As for one interview, he mentioned a man in his late ass named Matt Swan. Matt Swan is 27. He took 6-1/2 years to graduate from the University of Georgia. When he finally finished, he had a brand- spanking-new degree in cognitive science, which he describes as a wide-ranging interdisciplinary field that covers cognition, problem solving, artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology, philosophy and anthropology. “(Grossman 2). Grossman states that even though Swan had successfully graduated from college, the colleges are out of touch with the real world to have students ready to become successful workers after college.
He also mentions that a year and a half later after Swan’s graduation, he found himself a Job waiting tables. He states that he felt like he had more hands on experience more than he ever did in college. He was able to interact with people ND was able to put his people skills into work. Grossman interviewed all types of individual as they tell their stories, and for the readers to see another side of the story. He concludes that sometimes it is not the paycheck that the workers are working for by the end of their days, but the experience and trying to make a difference in their lives.
Grossman also uses TIME magazine for his resources to back up his assertions. He uses professions in psychology and sociology to back up his theory. “Jeffrey Aren’t, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, favors “emerging adulthood” to describe this new demographic group, and the term is the title of his new book on the subject. His theme is that the Twisters are misunderstood. It’s too doing important work to get themselves ready for adulthood. (Grossman 2).
In this section, Grossman mentions a psychologist at the University of Maryland and how he explains the stage where the younger generations are easily misunderstood. Rather than putting a label and calling them, “overgrown children”, its best to describe them as working to become successful for their adulthood. Overall, this article provides a tot more proven facts and statistics to back up the article, On the other hand, in the article, “I’m K, but you’re not” article, is written for readers to understand a more specific yet personal side of things.
Seller describes his morning where he is in a restaurant where he was asked to be seated in the smoking area. While enjoying his breakfast and cigarettes, he notices an older couple sitting 5 feet away from him in the non smoking area. Seller described the husbands manner and tone was “so self-righteous and peremptory- he reminded me of Lee Iacocca boasting about Chrysler”(Seller 1) , as he asked Seller to stop mooing. As he was smoking his cigarettes, he was asked to put out the cigarettes.
To his favor, “As a chronic smokestack, I normally comply, out of simple courtesy, with such requests. ” (Seller 1) As the couple scurried out the restaurant, the husband takes his two dogs out of their car and had them urine and defecate on the lawn. Seller concludes, “In any case, the point of this real-life vignette, as John Birth would insist, is obvious. The current controversy over public smoking in Fort Collins is a clear instance of selective virtue at work, coming under the rubric of, what I do is refectory K, but what you do is perfectly awful. (Seller 3) Seller uses a lot of descriptive text to describe his surroundings and what he sees. He goes into deeper depth on how there were two older couples sitting five feet away from in the non smoking section. Throughout the article he approaches to more of an emotional side as he was expressing his feelings towards the issue for the dashes that were used in the articles. Seller’s tone in the beginning is informative, when he was describing his addiction to cigarettes. “l have happily gone through three or four packs a day for the past 40 years. (Seller 1).
As the situation approaches, the readers are able to see where his tone slowly changes from an innocent to sarcastic tone, to where he mentions, “As I regretfully watched them go? after all, the four of them had made my day?it seemed to me that they were in something of a hurry, and I uncharitably wondered if the husband was not anxious to get home in order to light the first Fall fire in his moss-rock fireplace, or apply the Fall ration of chemical fertilizer to his doubtlessly impeccable lawn, thus adding another half-pound of particulates to the local atmosphere and another 10 pounds of nitrates ND other poisons to the regional aquifers. ” (Seller 3) For both of the articles, “I’m K, and you’re not’, and “Meet the Twisters”, there are quite a few things that they commonly share, in which I find “Meet the Twisters” a lot more convincing than “I’m K, but you’re not”, based on the proven facts and statistics the author has provided in the article.
The couples at the restaurant in “I’m K, but you’re not” are considerate as they were being described as Seller, “marshaled their collective dignity and drove off in a dense cloud of blue smoke?that evolve white Mercedes was urgently in need of a valve-and-ring Job, its emission sticker an obvious exercise in creative writing. ” Similar to the couples, Twisters like to whatever that is that they want in their future. They are spending years and years to determine that path. To Seller, he disagrees to the couples choice in which letting their dogs urinate and defecate on the lawn, is similar to the couples’ disagreement to Seller’s smoking.
Seller and the couple are similar in a way that they would like for one another’s actions. The difference in them is the actions that are being agreed with one another, only bother the person who did not put it in action. The major and obvious difference between two articles is that one article puts himself in a personal situation, and the other one conducts research and provides statistics, interviews and facts to back up is assertions about twisters. Both have a similarity to where the use different resources and elaborations to explain the motives and actions towards situations. WORK CITED Grossman, Levee. “Twisters – Grow Up? Not So Fast. ” 16, Jan. 2005. Seller, Robert. “I’m O. K. , But You’re Not. ”
