“Senior Year of High School” Advertisement

The advertisement “Senior Year of High School” strongly presents the reader to view the concept of growing up a vulnerable time for adolescence and that it is a time for parents to assert their authority. This representation is reached through the target audience being parents of teenagers and also the elements of language and visual. By this advertisement being written for the purpose of educating parents instead of educating teenagers is due to the writer believing that teenagers will not respond and will not affect their overall decision making. However, my targeting it at parents it allows them to see methods that could work in preventing the temptations their child may face without controlling their lives completely. The advertisement through its use of language dramatically expresses that teenagers are susceptible to dangerous things such as drugs and alcohol and that if parents don’t step in and help that they could ruin their lives forever. Through the connection of language and visuals the advertisement presents to the reader that there are many pathways in every persons life and that it is okay that we help guide our loved ones onto the write path. This advertisement stresses its point clearly and precisely through its dot point guide to helping the child and highlighting that although their child may be in the final staging on schooling, you still have a right to set your rules and boundaries. This advertisement presents the reader to strongly see that senior year of high school is a year that kids will push boundaries and fall for temptations, but it is an even bigger time for parents to make sure they have control and help their kids choose the right pathway that they wont regret when they get older.