Question

I have to write an essay for and against the topic "Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret". The basic rule for writing argumentative essays as per the ICSE syllabus is to first define the imporatnt keywords given in the essay topic. Here the keywords are youth, manhood and old age. When exactly do I define them? Do I define all three of them in the beginning itself or should I do so before arguing for/against the particular case? Please help!

Answer 1

Explanation:

Life is a kaleidoscopic spectacle, presenting varying aspects at various stages. To survey the progress of a person from childhood to old age is indeed very revealing. The years of childhood and boyhood are a period free from cares or earnestness: it is only in the youth that one comes to taste some of the realities of man’s existence on this globe. A youth merges into manhood, which in turn, passes into old age, life unfolds itself in many new and startling ways. There is no hiatus between one period and another, though each is distinguishable from the other in some outstanding manner.