Promposals

Promposals

1. Give an outline of the different views on promposals presented in the texts.

During the past years “promposals” has become for some “almost as big as the prom itself.”  It's all about inviting the right person and do it in a way that no one thought possible. In the three articles we hear about the American phenomenon. “Promposals” is the term for inviting someone to prom and is a mix between the words “prom” and “proposal”. Text 1 describes how far some students are willing to go and how “asking a date goes public”. For some schools promposals has become unmanageable and the school committees has been forced to ban them.

In similar with text 1, text 2 is also about the more negative consequences proportioned with promposals. Every student is part of the competition. It's easier to get humiliated if you do not have the perfect date - or maybe don't even have a date - and the social pressure is too much for some students. The issue about going to prom, has always been an (for some) awkward situation because the persons involved has been in their teen years, a time where everything is uncomfortable, but now days this, otherwise awkward but private, situation has become a public ceremony for the whole world to see.

Text 3 is an article written by Taylor Trudon, editor of Huffpost Teen, and is about her own experiences and opinion about “promposals”. When she was young “promposals were not A Thing…” but that didn't mean that having the right date, and the right dress at prom, were not the most important for every high school girl (and boy). Trudons own prom was mildly said a disaster, and it was not that “magical night” she expected, but that didn’t refrain her to not love promposals afterwards.

2. Characterize the tone and style of text 3. Give examples from the text.

Although the Taylor Trudon hated her own prom, she defends the promposals and encourage every other writer that has a problem with promposals and all the school committee who are banning promposals, to let the students go after their target, even though they may be turned down and even though they will fail. Because that is part of being young.

Trudons way of articulate her opinions is expressed through an easily and funny style of writing. Her knowledge is built on her own (unfortunately humiliatingly) experiences, which results in her use of irony and with her sort of mutual understanding with the reader. About the pressure she writes: “I’d like to imagine it’s a lot like being in your twenties where it’s rare to not wake up to a “WE’RE ENGAGED!!!” Facebook status screaming at you on Sunday morning while eating soggy scrambled eggs (alone) in bed. [...] “ and it almost