Thursday, March 4, 2010
Satire
Yesterday we discussed "The Rape of the Lock," which is a satire. Hopefully you remember that a satire pokes fun at something in society that people take too seriously (ex: Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin; "The Office" spoofing bad bosses, etc.). I would like you to try to write a satire today. You may choose any social issue or person that you want. You do not have to write it in poetry form if you don't want to do so. Have fun!
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Writing satire is almost impossible. One thing that I do kind of like making fun of though is peopel who take religion completely seriously.
ReplyDeleteJesus is coming back and is going to whisk all the good Christians away and take them to heaven, while the 'bad' people are going straight to the eternal fires of hell! You better act now, and accept Jesus Christ into your life. Otherwise, no matter how good of a person you are, YOU are going to hell. And don't give me that excuse, "well, what about people who haven't learned about God and Jesus?" EVERYBODY knows in thier spirit that Jesus is the saviour of mankind. There is no excuse for not knowing Jesus. You see, the simple truth is that EVERYTHING happened exactly the way the bible says, and that is just the way the world works. Insects only have 4 legs, just like it says in Leviticus chapter 20. And OF COURSE God created the world in six days. How do I know? Because the Bible says so. That's how. Science lies. Evolution is crap.
And also, Noah actually did create an arc big enough for two of every animal on earth. Hey! It's possible. You can't prove that it DIDN'T happen! The same is true about Johna. I mean, seriously. What's so hard about believing that God was mad at Johna for not preaching in Nineva, so he made Johna get swallowed by a whale, where he resided in its belly for three days, and was then spit out on the shores of Nineva. Amazing story, really. We all better believe in God and do what he tells us, or we will end up like Johna. And how can people deny the fact that the way different groups of people began speaking different languages is because God wanted to prevent them from building the Tower of Babel... all the way up to heaven! Yeah, that's right. Good thing God stopped them by making them unable to communicate. Otherwise, they might have gotten to heaven before their due time, in which the all powerfull, omnipitent Father has known since the beginning of time.
Man, don't even get me started on Jesus. Of course he was the Messiah! And did I mention he's coming back soon. It says so in revelation, which I easily understand, and I'm sure anybody who has Jesus in their heart does too. The fact is, the ever present cosmic battle between good and evil is going to intensify, and Jesus is going to win the battle over the devils appointed Antichrist. Become a christian today and GET SAVED.
Seeing Nathan's blog makes me ashamed about what I would say because I would not get anywhere near that in-depth about a satire.WOW!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think I remember a part in The Adventures of Huck Finn where they use satire. Huck sneeks out of his house at night so he can meet with Tom Sawyer and his gang. As a rebelling act, they decide they are going to capture townspeople and hold them for randsom. The only problem is that the gang doesn't know what randsom means. So Tom makes up a definition and says that maybe randsom means to keep them until they're dead and all the boys believe him.
ReplyDeleteI believe that example is a satire because it "pokes fun" at how a conjecture could be completely wrong, but if a society adopts it as a true statement, it is then politically correct.
It is quite difficult to think of something to write about....
ReplyDeleteSome kids shows kind of remind me of satires. They always have this horrible problem. Like on iCarly when Carly and her brother read her brother's "obituary" in the newspaper and then keep pretending that he is dead so people will buy his sculptures for way more money. And then he can just magically come alive again and not even get in trouble. Or when Hannah Montana screws up the words to the National Anthem and almost ruined her ENTIRE CAREER! They kind of exaggerate small problems that people have to make them interesting enough to put into a TV show.
They should make a TV show about a girl who paints her nails with a really cool polish. Then when she has a hot date with her boyfriend she takes the polish off to reveal a dilemma - it turned her nails green! She would yell and yell and cry, and then, right before the boy came over, she would get the idea to re-paint her nails to cover them up. Yea, that was a really lame example but I could see Disney channel making a show with that exact storyline.
P.S. The only reason I know those shows is because my brother likes to watch them. :P
ReplyDeleteSo hmm write a satire.....
ReplyDeleteOk here it goes
Sally is in web design class and they had to make a pod cast to show the class. She knew the whole time that she would evetually have to show the class, but when she finally finished it and realized the clas was going to watch it she threw a huge hissy fit, and starting throwing the computers across the room and allmsot started crying. THen the teacher gave a huge lecture to the whole class about how stupid they were being.
the end!!