Writing about
whether having one parent always at home or not make is more efficient, Emily
Oster writes an article on June 3rd explaining that it doesn’t really
change anything. She starts off her article with a story of a friend of hers
from elementary school. She explains that his mom made the best cupcakes every,
in her opinion it’s the top 5 favorite dessert. Unlike her mother who would say
“Get the list first, and sign up for soda and f you miss…sign up for plates.” Oster goes on to explain that in her
house, her parents split everything 50/50. She explains that in a feminist view
the women is the one who does everything, but she says that after a cover story
at the Atlantic on gay marriage, they don’t have
this indifference because they don’t have any feminist baggage to worry about
and it’s not a good idea to have one. Oster then talks about her household, she
says that there are many people in her house like nanny, her, her husband, the
cleaning lady, and her daughter, but the difference that it all works is that
her and her husband split time between child care and work. While others only
do one at a time, which is not a very good choice. Oster ends her article
explaining that “specialization insight” doesn’t necessarily mean that one
parent has to be home all the time, but is certainly makes it easier.
In this article Oster uses irony in her writing, to illustrate her
opinion, making her point; that it doesn’t really make a difference, stronger
and vivid. She uses irony when talking about how her parents would split everything
“50/50” even the cooking, but she says that her dad was not any good at cooking
but they would still split everything with each other. She also uses irony to
end her article by saying that she does not blame her mother for not doing the cupcakes
but she does blame her for not getting someone else to do it for her. She also
ends her article by rephrasing her beginning point, in the beginning she talks
about how she loved Mikey’s moms
cupcakes but her preferred taking sodas or plates, then ends by saying she does
not blame her mom for this but she does for her mother not finding someone who
could do the cupcakes. Oster uses many of personal touches tough out her
article to interpret to the audience that she knows what she is talking about. Although
she uses personal pronouns, she maintains a formal diction, which enables her
audience to comprehend her and make her words flow.
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