Read the passage from an essay. What is the author’s purpose in this passage? My Summer Vacation Every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. Finals are over. You can just kick back and relax. You can read whatever you want, go wherever you want, watch TV all day, or surf the Internet. The days stretch out, full of fun and laughs. Every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. Every teenager—except me. My summers are awful. For as long back as I can remember, this has been the one steady fact of my life. Summer vacations are awful. It’s a fact, just as we say Earth revolves around the sun and the sun sets in the west. Each year brought some new horror. It would always start the same way, too. Dad would gather us around the dinner table and give us this year’s destination. We couldn’t refuse. To Dad, it was sacred family time. So we smiled and looked excited. Then we would all pile into the car. Just the four of us—dad, mom, my sister, and me—would have been somewhat bearable. But for my dad, the summer trip was not just family time, but extended family time. So my grandmother, my aunt, and her three kids would also pile into our poor little car. It was a survival of the fittest, played out without fail every summer. The winner got the window seat. Grandma always got one. My little cousins pushed and jostled to get the other. Because I was the oldest among five cousins, I never got the sacred window seat. Janice, Mikey, and Ben were as awful as summer itself. to inform about the disadvantages of taking a summer trip to convince the reader that taking summer trips is harmful to entertain the reader by describing the author’s bad road trips to express the author’s frustration about being the oldest cousin
