"Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day"

1. How does Rittenberg hook the reader? What’s happening?

Rittenberg starts out by saying that he is 16, and he was thinking about what he was going to do that weekend. Then he hears his parents in the other room talking, his dad was upset.

2. What specifics does Rittenberg use to emphasize how older generations saw horrible things in their lifetimes?

Rittenberg uses things like they went through two world wars, killer flu, segregation, a nuclear bomb.


3. How does Rittenberg use specifics to demonstrate his hopefulness?

Rittenberg says that he believes his generation will witness the time when AIDS is cured and cancer is defeated and that peace will finally settle over in the Middle East.


4. How does Rittenberg use the title to make his point?

At the end of the essay he is listening to his dad talking and wants to tell him, "Don't worry Dad, tomorrow will be a better day." This, I believe. That is what his father would tell him when he was younger.