Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day
1) Rittenberg hooks the reader by contrasting the issues he is contemplating with the issues his parents are worried about. He introduces the subject by relating it to his own family life, so the reader feels a connection to him and his family.
2) The body of Rittenberg’s paper begins with him exaggerating his father’s negative outlook on the future. This reflects how his father saw horrible things in his own past, showing his negative outlook on the difficulties he has faced in his lifetime.
3) Rittenberg first lists the bad things people have faced in the past, and then contrasts this with the potential improvement these bad things have. For example, he says his father’s generation faced a “killer flu,” but then in the next paragraph says how he is optimistic that our generation will discover a vaccine for AIDS, so we will not have to face the same health issues that have been faced in the past.
4) The paper begins with the title “tomorrow will be a better day,” and is followed by Rittenberg discussing the issues older generation have faced and the hope our generation has for the future. Then, Rittenberg brings this title back for his conclusion, where he tells the story of his father cheering him up after a bad day by telling him that ”tomorrow will be a better day.” He says he believed his father even when his father didn’t give any reason why tomorrow would be better, which leads the reader to have the same optimism, without having any concrete proof to support the statement.
Filed by efsw18 at February 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized
