Satire

Satire is the use of humor or exaggeration to expose and criticize people's stupidity. Also a literary term used to make fun of human weakness. People use it to improve mankind in a humorous way.

What's being satirized in "The the impotence of proofreading" By Taylor Mali, is the use of the spellchecker. He's getting low grades due to his spelling. He needs to change the way he spells in order for him to be get into a good college. One example of is that his teacher Mrs. Smith told him he would never get into a good college if he keeps writing like that. Another example is when the teacher read his paper out loud to all his classmates it was the most embarrassed experience in his life and being laughed at publicity. My reaction to this is that the teacher should of never read the paper out loud in front of all his class mates since she knew he was such a bad speller. Another this is that he might end up correcting his bad spelling and learned that next time he should fit all his mistakes before handing the paper to the teacher. He needs to learn how to spell for his own good, if he wants to go to a good college. There was one time that the same thing happened to my friend, she did not know how to spell word correctly and won't go over her writing for spelling check and the teacher read her paper out loud the same way she wrote it. For her it was the most embarrassing moment of he life. But then that experience changed her ways and she started checking for spelling errors after she finished writing her papers. What's being satirized is the way he spells and writes and the teacher is letting him know in that way so he can learn and start checking his writing before handing it in. His spelling depends on his future. An example is, "Has this ever happened to you? You work very hard on a paper for English class and then get a very low grade (like a D or even a D-) and all because you are the world's worst speller. Proofreading your papers is a matter of the  most importance."


What is being satirized in "6-Year-Old Boy Thinks He Might Be Too Old To Be In Woman's Locker Room" is that Barrett thinks he is too old to be going to the woman's locker room and can tell the women are feeling uncomfortable in front of him. The satire is that he says he's not 3 years old any more. He already knows what's going on already. He feels uncomfortable seeing naked woman around him that he does not know. The change that he's expecting is for his mom not to take him to the woman's locker room. One example from the article that's being satirized is when he says"I'm at that age now where every time I'm surrounded by grown, half-naked women I don't even know, I think to myself, 'What am I doing here? This isn't right." Another example is when he says "What's my mom thinking? I'm not three anymore, for God's sake—I know what's going on now, and frankly, I really don't appreciate standing around awkwardly for 10, 15 minutes trying to pretend I don't feel incredibly uncomfortable." My reaction about this is that his already getting too old for being in the women locker room and his mom should stop taking him in. His mom needs to learn he doesn't feel comfortable to be around naked woman's and that the woman's feel uncomfortable with him inside. There was a time when my cousin mom would take him to the girl's bathroom when he was 7 and he really felt really uncomfortable because there was a lot of girls and even girls his age that didn't feel comfortable being in the bathroom while he was there. So he told my aunt about not taking him to the girl's bathroom. That he's old enough to go to the man's bathroom by himself. My aunt learned that he is getting too old to be going to the girls bathroom and that other girls in the bathroom might not be comfortable with him in there.

What's been satirized in the "Advice to Youth" Mark Twain, 1882 is that he's giving advice to the youth. He's trying to give his advice by saying to build character upon these precepts. It's being satirized because he gives advice on how to react on certain things such as: "Always respect your parents even though they think they know better than you do." "Further advice comes when if someone insults you to just hit them." He's trying to give advice in a sarcastic kind of way. The kind of change he's expecting is for the youth to use it as advice and follow it. He say's if you follow them it would make your life easier. 

In HARRISON BERGERON what's being satirized is equality, because it say's by 2081 everyone would be equal but in reality no one can be equal as someone else. The way is being satirized is when it say's, Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. The change that is expected is that no one can control our equality. No one is equal as someone else. My reaction to this is that there's no one that is equal in every way. Also no one can stop us from using our brain due to us being too smart. My personal experience is that in life no one would ever be equal. Specially in this country there's poor people and rich people.We have equal opportunities, but we are not equal.


In the Reading Satirical Articles Can Get You Tortured, Sent To Gitmo was being satirized is that, 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. That actually caused him to go to jail. He was making that a joke about how to make a bomb but the CIA didn't believe him and said he was going to make an attack to the U.S.A . Is being satirized because he did something he thought it was a joke but actually people took it serious. Now he has to be in jail for 30 years for something he supposedly says is a joke. The kind of change is expected is for people to stop joking about something so serious specially to the U.S.A. One example is that Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail. Another example is that Binyam said that he told them about a website he had once seen on the Internet called How To Build An H-Bomb. He said that this was a joke but they thought it might be serious. My reaction to this is that people need to stop joking with stuff that is really important. Also people should know when is the right time to joke about something this serious. I would recommend people to think before they act, because something that's just a joke to you can actually mean something bad for someone else. My personal experience to this is once that I was in 5th grade and me and 2 of my friends were in the lunch line and I dare him to call the teacher crazy, but I didn't mean it in a bad way just to see if he does it. So then he said it and the teacher got mad and told him he was in big trouble for saying that and he told her that I send him to say it to her and we both got in trouble and our parents had to go to school for that. From that experience I learned to don't dare no one to say something bad to another person when I don't mean it because it can hurt someone feelings and actually get in trouble.





was being satirized in this cartoon is that IRAQ and IRAN are two different countries and if they make changes in IRAQ then they might go to war with IRAN.

In my conclusion satire to me is when someone do something he's not suppose to and someone else tries to make him see in a humorous way what he has done wrong so he can learn from it. An example is the article about proof reading and how the teacher tells him he would never get into college if he keeps writing like that. She say it so he can start taking it serious and check his spelling. Satire makes fun of a human weakness in a way they can improve it. People use satire everyday is like if we don't like what our friend is wearing you say " I see you didn't have time to get dress this morning and just laugh about it with our friend, we say it in a humorous way but we actually mean it. Satire is a text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity.