Tuesday 27 March 2012

How is representation of age constructed in this extract?


Two older men are sitting at a pub table and the oldest looking man thanks him, and he starts to say that it is a different world these days and that technology has improved, that there's new computers and key cards, this is being stereotypical to old people and its saying that the older generation are not familiar with new technology and they don't know how to use it. 

And the other man adds to that saying "are other people just getting younger or are we getting older" which agrees with what the other man had said. 

Then the two men start talking about retiring and this also is quite stereotypical because not all old people have to be retired some may want to keep working. Then the other man talks about moving back to India because he's now retired and he wants to settle in with the money they have saved up and with the pension that is being given to him and his wife. 

The other man then goes to a group of people and discusses about some guy who's got a sweatshop in India and is humiliating and attacking his workers. The people working for him seem to be older and he's far younger, this shows that the younger generation are disrespectful towards their elders and they think they can do anything they want because they are wealthier and believe they have more power.

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