Right off the back Fuentes tells you her view on Juvenile crimes by using the example of three boys. Kipland Kinkel, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden, each of these three boys unloaded mini arsenals of guns at their classmate, and are responsible for killing some. By mentioning these boys Fuentes recognizes that these boys have done wrong, it is when she writes:

[The three boys] fulfilled the worst fears about y

The reader knows that Fuentes understands that what these children have done was wrong and she knows how it has affected the public. She even states it in paragraph three, “The three boys are believed to have committed terrible deeds, no question.” But now the reader knows that she does not like that these crimes have affected the public in a way that they do not care about the children at all. Doing this Fuentes makes the argument strong because right then the reader knows where Fuentes is coming from.

Although I enjoyed reading the article “Crackdown on Kids” I don’t think it was effective. In my opinion people are not going to take heed to what she is saying and try to stop thinking of young people in a bad light because she throws out some statistics as to how young people are not as bad as the were when 30 years ago. Another reason her ending had a lot of emotion, and I did not care for that.

Fuentes even argues that, even if this kid(s) were a cartoon the public would be no more lineate on it than they would a small boy who kicked his mother and is charged for domestic battery. This is a bad. Fuentes had to stoop to the level of a cartoon character and compare it to real life. It also creates a different type of tone for the reader. It means that Fuentes is really serious about this subject. And it lets the reader wonder about if there are any underlying issues to this subject; which is good. The reader should be able to question the author that is a good sign.

Criminalization of young people makes no sense, of course. This the beginning sentence of the last paragraph. Her reasons are that if locking the children up was suppose change the children’s behavior it is not working. She says that “kids are a national treasure and natural

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