Convincing Your Parents...

Logos

What can be done with ten dollars a week? Could you live with only a ten dollar allowance a week? Most lunches, breakfasts or let alone dinners could not be ten dollars. At least once a week I have to buy my lunch because of lack of food to make my own lunches. An average growing boy would need to eat at least a decent lunch everyday without this decent meal I would grow with insufficient energy during the day making me tired and may stub growth.

Ten dollars a week may have been extraordinarily generous in another time period but in this day and age with prices growing by at least 5-10% a year. That means at least that I can't buy 10% less than I could last year. With even a slight increase I would be able to buy and afford more items and food for lunch. With more food I would be able to concentrate and pay attention at school which would make me more productive.

Pathos

What can be bought with ten dollars? Do you price your excess love to your only son as at ten dollars a week? Where can I buy a ten dollar lunch which isn't tainted or dangerous for my health which could result in my own death? Are you that kind of parents not to care about the food that I can only afford with the minimal money that I receive.

At school i can only afford the cheapest and smallest amounts of food this doesn't give me the proper amount of food and would stunt my already short stature, so I would grow up to become a lot more shorter than I already am.

The prices at school canteen will continually rise until I won't be able to afford anything and I will be unable to buy any lunches, therefore the only course of action is to increase my allowance to keep up to the rise of prices

Ethos

You have given your lowly son ten dollars a week. I understand the facts that led to the decision of creating this allowance system and deciding that I should be able to spend this money freely. But as you have seen the rises in petrol prices and the rise in the prices for simple amenities of life such as simple food. This also includes the prices at the school canteen.

The only course of action is to increase my allowance from 10 dollars which was previously set by you, but time has changed from the cheaper previous years to the more expensive days. So the only course of action is to increase my amount of allowance to cope for these more expensive days.