Introduction
Meredith Goldstein wrote this article. Goldstein is a journalist for the Boston Globe, a media house in the United States. In this article, Goldstein talks about the life crisis that is faced by many youths who are between 22 to 29 years of age. Most of the people at this age have either graduated from college, are looking for work, or are trying to build and develop their careers. Most of them face obstacles and setbacks that they were not expecting.
This derails them from achieving their goals and dreams in life. Most of them actually do not live the kind of life that they expected to be living at that age and time. As a result of these challenges, these people face a life crisis that most people refer to it as a quarter life crisis. Goldstein explores this life crisis in her article in terms of the way people view it and the impacts that it has on the lives that these people are living.
Purpose, diction, and tone of the article
The purpose of this article was to explore a crisis that many youths are experiencing. The ages between 22 and 29 years are very crucial in determining the life of an individual. It is thus critical for people of this age group to come together and create a forum that will address the common problem that they are facing and possibly come up with the solution. To address this issue, Goldstein told us about a writer called Wilner who created a website that people could share their quarter-life experiences with each other.
The author has also used diction in his writing by utilizing vocabulary and good sentence structure to bring out clearly her idea. She has used the word angst in her text that is of an ancient origin. From her writing, it is clear that the tone of her article is inquisitive as the author of the article wants to know the impacts that the issue at hand has on youths and how people could reduce the effects of the problem.
Conclusion
This article has focused on a major crisis that many youths are facing in the world. Quarter-life crisis, as the author is calling it affects the lives of many youths around the world emotionally and mentally. This is because most people of this age group do not live the kind of life that they hoped for. Necessary measures have to be taken to ensure that the impacts of this crisis are reduced.