The writer of “Generation Me” is a societal psychologist whose name is Jean M. Twenge. She is one of the “Me” Generation as she was born in 1971. Twenge suggested a different reading of some of the commonly held constructs of the coevals diversely referred to as Generation Me. Steve Eubanks summarized this book as “…first half of the book makes the instance that this is a coevals in which the importance of the single supersedes all other concerns. concentrating on the cultural and demographic forces that have influenced this coevals cohort. The 2nd half of the books explores how this single focal point affects members of Generation Me. their relationships with each other coevalss. Twenge closes the book with a figure of suggestions for how establishments can be better prepared to cover with Generation Me. ” Her stance is that Generation Me has the highest self-pride of any coevals. but besides the most depression.

Peoples who were born within “Me” coevals are more free and equal. but besides more misanthropic. We expect to follow our dreams. but are dying about doing that happen. I agree with her stance in some case. She did a immense. unquestionably un-GenX sum of research and replaced them with existent informations. She provided a batch of helpful informations and grounds from either single or professional surveies that can carry me to believe in her statements. “Generation Me” is a really professional book which includes an insightful analysis of the immature grownups Twenge labels ‘GenMe’-their supreme assurance in their ain worth and their concern with making things by their ain manner. However. I don’t urge this book for future 1A pupils because it can non catch readers’ involvements and contains a broad scope usage of vocabulary. In some case. “Generation Me” is a great book for parental readers and besides. the “Me” coevals themselves.

This book made them recognize some jobs which they would hold ne’er noticed if cipher kindly reminded them. Parents should non learn their kids in that certain manner which Twenge introduced in her book. and parents should “abandon our compulsion with self-esteem. and be honest with kids about their success and failures” ( 227 ) . “Me” coevals was born and raised in an environment which they were taught to be self-esteem or even they were “taught” to be self-love. “…we should all experience good about ourselves. we are all particular. and we all deserve to follow our dreams…” ( 49 ) and “…I am good plenty. I am smart plenty. and doggone it. people like me…” ( 55 ) . Those sound pathetic to me because when people are cocksure about themselves. they become instead conceited about everything around them. If adolescents are taught in this manner. they can barely pass on with others when they grow up and work for companies.

They don’t cognize how to be respect and be low because they merely consider themselves as the best and prefect in the universe. Generation Me is written with statistics and thoughtful illustrations which convince readers even though they don’t want to acknowledge some truth. in other words. Twenge did non hold with the educational manner that “…feeling good about yourself no affair how you act or whether you learn anything or not” ( 57 ) . and so did I. In this manner. Generation me brings a batch of utile information to parents and today’s immature Americans. It tells them how to move in a right manner. and it shows the right sense of value which they should hold. However. I still don’t urge this book because of the undermentioned grounds. First of all. some illustrations from Twenge seem non converting at all. For illustration. after asseverating that Generation Me is more tolerant of homosexuals. she mentions a adolescent male child who is afraid of what his schoolmates would make to him if they knew of his orientation.

It doesn’t sound “more tolerant” to me at all. Then. harmonizing to They Say/ I say. blending conversational linguistic communication with academic linguistic communication to retain the readers’ involvement while being easy to understand. However. the key is to maintain hold the balance between the two as non to damage your ethos. Twenge provided excessively much informations and statistic which make readers tired. She could non catch readers’ involvements all the clip and she wholly lost the balance between formal and informal linguistic communications. For illustration. Twenge listed a great figure of informations in chapter 2 which talk about self-pride. The content makes readers bored particularly when her co-worker and she started comparing the information with different old ages. They compared the differences between the males from different ages. the females from different ages. and the differences between females and males who are in the same age. Numbers appeared within one page for 38times. “By the mid-1990s. the mean GenMe college adult male had higher self-pride among grownups. The mean GenMe college adult male had higher self-pride than 86 % of college work forces in 1968.

The mean mid-1990s college adult female had higher self-pride than 71 % of Boomer college women… . . ” ( 52 ) This book is more like a study consequence with 1000s of informations and information that we can non cognize neither the names of the studies nor when it happened or who were the source. Example expressions like “my pupils Charles and I analyzed 241 surveies that gave this questionnaire to college pupils and kids. 40. 745 persons in all” appears every chapter and the writer ne’er give readers the inside informations about those researches. Many successful authors blend an academic. professional linguistic communication with popular looks and expressions. and informal linguistic communications can assist us link with readers in a personal manner every bit good as an rational manner. Twenge made her book imbalanced between formal and informal linguistic communications. which mean that one time she started her information analysis or character analysis. she used formal linguistic communication and merely listed the illustrations one by one.

This makes her book drilling and she could non catch readers’ involvements. Last but non least. the usage scope of vocabularies is excessively broad for 1A pupils. particularly for international pupils. When I read this book. I used the on-line interlingual rendition tool for at least 10 times per page. I consider my measure of vocabulary is at an intermediate degree. and I have to acknowledge that I haven’t finished reading Generation Me yet. There are so many specialised vocabularies in each subdivision and I can non read swimmingly because of the names and ages. Each individual seems to be the same one to me and I had to reread the sentences over and over.

For the bulk of international pupils. it might be the first clip for us to have this sort of reading assignment. If Generation Me is go oning to be assigned to 1A pupils. they might lose their involvements in reading because of it. To sum up. I don’t urge this book for future 1Astudents as this book does non maintain involvements and focal point of readers easy. It has a broad usage scope of vocabularies particularly for international pupils. But Twenge exhibits the societal world among immature people. She provided some utile information in the terminal of the book for people in different societal places that they can be better prepared when they meet “Me” coevals. It is a superb book and I would wish to urge it to parents and 1000s of Generation Me alternatively of 1A pupils at Foothill College.