One day, the author of the article checked his Facebook while smoking, and found out that his mother sent him a Facebook friend request. "She bullied (him) for failing to be the son she wanted. She called (him) “faggot", showing that the author didn't understand why she had sent the request. When he checked her profile, he found photos of his two siblings " laughing at birthday parties. Smiling with their arms around each other" and their "graduation photos", which made him jealous, because he " had been deprived of a mother". Also, he reveals his feelings on that moment: he "was happy she found (him), angry she had thrown (him) away and hurt that she didn’t seem sad in the photos". Then, he does a brief flashback about his life before assuming his homosexuality. He claims he was aware of his sexuality by fourteen, when he wrote down the attractions towards his male best friend in a journal, which was later read outloud by his mother in dinner time. Then, he started doing drugs because it "buried (his) mother’s insults, (his) self-doubt and anger".
The author begins with describing his surroundings, and how he was holding his cigarette, which is a very peculiar type of introduction to an article. He uses the description as a pattern of development, and also uses much of pathos, making it a narrative and highly descriptive essay. He also writes the article in a different order, with the situation-explanation-background information model, differently from others, where the background information is usually the first. His paragraph structure is very easy to follow, using the main phrase-explanation-information related to the main phrase-conclusion model and smoothing the flow of information. Some of the paragraphs are strongly bonded by the real situation, where the author uses the technique of returning to the past to tell his story and the return to reality. The article overall is very good, but the conclusion was very weak, whose content only tells what happened with him, and not wrapping up to an end.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/18/the_facebook_reunion_i_never_saw_coming/
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