Sample Argumentative Essay 2

Question:

Living away from parents is different from living with them. Give your opinion by providing relevant examples. Write your essay in about 300-350 words.

            Where is he now? Is he in a good condition? It has been almost two months your brother has not come home. These are the common phrases that have always been said by my mother. Working as an army officer makes my brother always living far away from my parents. Without a doubt, I can say that living away from parents strengthen relationships, brings about less problems, and we can train ourselves to be independent.

            First, relationships between parents and sons or daughters will be stronger. When we live far away from them, they will always think of us. The phrase “Miss you a lot” will always stick in their hearts. I think it is normal for us that if we bump into someone we always see everyday, in our mind we would think that we would bump into him or her again tomorrow and thus we will not miss him or her. However, if we live far from parents, it will be different. They will think of us, miss us and visit us whenever they have some free time. Not only that, we will call them or they will call us whenever they feel like talking to us. We also will sometimes spend more time chatting with them on the phone than when we are at home. As a result of this, our relationship with them will become stronger and closer.

            Secondly, if we live far from our parents, more problems can be avoided. Our parents will rarely be angry at us as they do not know about our activities and behaviour. It is not that we are trying to hide our bad attitude but sometimes parents are very strict in imposing rules or living up to a tradition or cultural need. As an example, a young Malay girl might not be allowed to sing in the kitchen at her home when it is actually something that can be done almost anywhere. Moreover, when living far from parents, they will think twice to scold us if we did anything wrong as we only stay with them for a short time and they might not want to spoil our holidays with them. Thus, many problems can therefore be avoided if we do not live with them.

            Finally, living far from parents will make us more independent. House chores such as washing clothes and cooking will have to be done ourselves. Other than that, we also will need to solve any problem we have ourselves. We will not be totally dependent on our parents. If we depend too much on out parents, we might be spoilt. What will happen then if they leave this world? Are you going to go with them or create problems for other people as you want to be treated like how you are treated by your parents? So, living far from parents will make us more independent as we have to rely on ourselves more to carry out chores and to solve problems.

            In a nutshell, living away from parents has more advantages as it leads us to train ourselves to stand on our two feet. We will have our own lives and will be responsible people. We will also not drag our parents into our problems and let them enjoy their lives in their golden age.