Summary Of What To Do With The Kids This Summer By Ben Sasse

An Analysis of Argument As the summer job declines, it poses many questions. Why do you need to be a member? How do I get started? And when will it be available? In Ben Sasse's article “What to Do with the Kids This Summer? Put ‘Em to Work. He answers every question, and more. While, Sasse uses his opinion that adolescence shouldn’t be an escape from adulthood but should rather be used as a time to learn, and bloom into a successful adult, to support his claim that teenage jobs are beneficial for adulthood, he depends on personal anecdotes to persuade his audience to work, or put their children to work. Ben Sasse has an extreme personal attachment to summer jobs. His teenage years consisted of waking up at the crack of dawn, rain or shine, and

showing this part of his life was strategic. In paragraph 4 Sasse states “Nearly a quarter century on, when I became the president of Midland University back in the same Nebraska town” (Sasse 13). By highlighting the hard times in his life, and then telling the reader that he then became the president of a university, he reveals that all the backbreaking labor he did as a teen paid off. Readers now, knowing this information, want their children, or even themselves, to become successful, like Sasse. So how would they do that? With a summer job in mind! And, that is why Sasse made the strategic choice to structure his story the way he did. By using personal anecdotes, he persuades his readers into thinking that summer jobs can make anyone successful. Sasse’s opinions are clear and concise. He knows adolescence is important, and beneficial. His idea is that it should be used as a learning opportunity, in order to grow and become a successful adult. Sasse states “Adolescents should not be an escape from adulthood; it should be when we learn how to be adults.” (Sasse 13) This outlook was very important for his argument, because this is when he can refer back to teenage