Satire

Satire is sarcasm and boy am I good at that.

My use of satire is easily seen through my relationship with my sisters.  As everyone knows, when you're the oldest you're ALWAYS right.

One day I didn't want to do the dishes because I always do them. We fought for awhile over why she couldn't do them and eventually she decided she would. Unfortunately for her, she broke a heavy glass dish. This is a quick recap of how the conversation went.

Mom: "How could you do that? That's my good china!"
My sister: "Mom, it really wasn't my fault! Kayla told me to do them!"
Me: "Well I didn't tell her she had to do all the dishes..."

As you can see, it wasn't my fault at all that she broke the dish. I didn't tell her to wash the heavy ones.

The writers of The Onion do a fantastic job of using satire in their articles.  In the article Laid off Hostess Employee Forced To Look For Creme-Injecting Job Elsewhere it satirizes the fact that the employees are upset that they lost their jobs, however, their jobs weren't hard. They also didn't have a very important job. It's not like they helped to run the country.  Finding a job that was as pointless as injecting creme won't be that difficult.  This article uses a parody to mock the seriousness of so many people losing their jobs.  It is bad that people are going to be out of work in this difficult economy but it's also funny that they are making such a big deal out of losing such a pointless job.  I mean, the worlds not going to end if there isn't anymore twinkies.  At least it won't end for me, however for other people that could be another story.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain satirizes the fact that many people see the Arican American race as disgusting and unhuman when in fact there is really not much difference at all.  Actually he makes fun of the white race and the heirarchy of the South a lot.  When the King and Duke come on the raft and at first Huck believes they are who they say. Twain is making fun of the fact that in the South "titles" are so important that they can't even tell reality from, well, phony frauds. I know there is satire but i don't really think the book is funny at all. Most of the passages are actually boring and serious. How is that supposed to entertain me? The only thing remotely funny was the fued between the Gragerfords and Shepardsons because it was extremely comical that they didn't even know what they were fighting about. Was this making fun of Romeo and Juliet?  I personally don't understand satire or how Twain even satirizes anything other than the racial segregation. I mean, what's so funny about a person who's trying to run away from being resold ito slavery?

The only thing I've read that had satire that I understood was Going Bovine.  The book is about a teenage boy who is dyig from Mad Cow Disease and e is extremely sarcastic.  There is a part of the novel where they throw a huge pep rally and he just doesn't care because he's going to die.  This satirizes how people only start to care when something bad is going to happen.

I dont like satire.  I might even like you better than satire.  I probably understand someone I've never met better than satire.