Satire

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Satire

Satire is a form of rudeness, a type of sarcasm, or ridicule. We use satire for basic teasing or making fun of people's weaknesses, in the process of growing people may use this way of rudeness to intimidate others in smaller form or weaker strength. Satire evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation toward its faulty subject in the hope of somehow improving it.

An example of satire is "The the impotence of proofreading" by Taylor Mali. We see how a student writing a paper in English class has misspelled almost every word. For example "You work very horde on a paper for English clash" he has misspelled two words and he continues on doing it through the rest of the paper, and he writes how a person works on a hard paper and gets D or even a D- "And then get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=)" we can see that even to write D - he writes it incorrect. For "low" he writes "glow" for "grade" he writes "raid." Using spell check is useless if we don't know the word we are looking for. We will be getting the incorrect word anyways. Mali is using satire in this essay by exposing and criticizing this students use of the spell checker. Ideally with the intentions of shaming the student into not using the spell checker, but hoping for improvement because satire is a form of constructive criticism.

In the article,"God Urges Rick Perry Not To Run For President"satire is being demonstrated when Perry says “I prayed last night and asked the Lord to support my candidacy, and He said No.” Satire is being used here because it's catching the audience's attention. Satire is being used here to entertain but to also highlight the problems and seek changes and improve Perry's candidacy.

"Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain 1882 is a speech for the youth he uses satire to give advice to the young. "Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others.If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient." It's funny how he says to respect an elder but he tells the teens that the youth knows better don't argue, hit them with a brick. He uses funny ways to describe to kids how to act and what to do by saying ridiculous things.

"HARRISON BERGERON" By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. This short story is talking about the future and about human being equal. It says that it was a time when people were all equal. No body was smarter than anybody else, stronger or quicker. It's impossible for human to be all equal. Everyone has similarity but never been the same as a society. Satire has been added to this article by letting the reader know how is ridicule seen every human as equal person.

"The newshoggers" In February 08, 2009 published an article called, Reading Satirical Articles Can Get You Tortured, Sent To Gitmo. This article is about making jokes about bomb in the internet an expending years in jail just for a joke. "A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a joke website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night."Situations like this one maybe serious but just for a among of time. This person spent Eight years in jail just for writing something on a website.

img scr="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ka1nyE58G7k/TvIEgx-i_eI/AAAAAAAAAAY/6M-SzTCWxv4/s1600/cartoon_-_gw_causes_stuff.jpg" align=right> Satire is the form of making fun of a situation so one can come in and change the situation. There are many forms of satire such as media wise, argument sack, animation, etc. no matter how man forms of satire there are they're all entitled to do the same thing. All the examples above play and show a great example of how satire works.