The way our society is now people lose their close relationships with people they love due to mass transportation and a quick moving society. Perry Patetic in this excerpt, argues that “We often lose track of old friends”. That is caused by “living in such a highly mobile society”. The author supports his argument by first confessing that having such a high society it is easy to leave a family or loved one. He continues by claiming a new transportation is bad and loses relationships. The authors purpose is to tell the reader to try and stay near their home to maintain the relationships because it is hard for people to try to talk on the phone instead of face to face time. The author uses a disappointed and serious tone so for the reader to understand leaving is bad. The author descriptively states why he does not like the fast moving society and it is a bad thing to lose close relationships with the people they would leave. …show more content…
“Travel long distances in order to have grandchildren and grandparents spend time together”. If the family lived in the same neighborhood or town you would not have to travel long distances and spend a bunch of money. People cannot depend on technology, many things can go wrong with such technology like bad wifi or bad reception in one area, but everyone could see each other if more and more people stayed close to home. “We tend to lose the close supportive relationships that people in other generations enjoyed”. If people did not want to get away from their family they could be happier like the older generations with less of a more advanced society so they could be more social and make had more