Life Can Be Funny is a short article featured on Teen Ink. Teen Ink is a series including a magazine, website and book which all include articles written by teens and submitted for publishing. This specific article was written by someone named Jennifer C. She writes about the ironic ways in which life always ceases to amaze us. How all bad things happen all at once or never at all. Jennifer creates a whole list of possible "teenage girl" scenarios and how they are "funny" but not really. Although she isn't an established author but rather just a teen posting for the pleasure of other teens, I believe this gives her credibility. She is preaching to a teenage audience and being one herself makes what she is saying believable. Teenagers tend to float to their like peers and being in the developmental stage of hating their parents or just wanting to "be themselves" of course they are going to listen to another teen. Through this automatic credibility amongst other teens her message is easily received. The message she is trying to get across is that yes life sometimes sucks but all the silly misfortunes that we are all faced with are something you sometimes just have to laugh off. Also that no one is alone in the chaos of life. She uses many allusions to ordinary teenage life to drive her message home. For example she talks about the typical scenario of your crush liking someone else and how you always undoubtedly end up embarrassing yourself in front of them. The awkward encounters between those who one may be attracted to are a true teenage struggle so she is really preaching to the choir with with this one and gets people to hop on to her bandwagon. Through these allusions she also establishes pathos. She connects to her readers emotions by commentating on a topic that they can relate to. To strengthen this connection she plays around with humor and emotions of a typical teenager.
http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/all/article/9112/Life-Can-Be-Funny/
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