English Final Blog Reflections

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       "Find your own example of satire. This can be anything appropriate for school, but cartoons seem to work the best. Once you have found your example of satire, analyze the purpose of the piece and explain what type of satire it is and why. Your response should be at least one well-developed paragraph."

       These where the instructions for the blog post on satire. The first part: Find your own example of satire. I did so by using the cartoon about debt. The next set of directions was to analyze the purpose saying what kind of satire it was and why. This is the first thing I say. I state that it is horation satire.

I went back to the power point that Mrs. Noble made where it showed the definition of haration satire and showed how the definition related to the components of the cartoon satire. I stated in the blog, "Its horation because it ridicules the absurdities of humans and does make people have a "wry smile". In this cartoon, the cartoonist is simply making fun of the fact that college graduates will be in debt." This is the main part of the well-developed paragraph I responded to about satire.

Knights of the Old Republic

This is a wonderful series. The first book was a book of trust, friendship, hardship and overall anarchy. This book is about a boy named Zane Carrik who is a padwan in training to become a Jedi. He leaves the Jedi council to go find an escaped convict but comes back to see his friends murdered by his master. This is a big surprise and they blame the who thing on him. Now he is wanted throughout the whole galaxy. He needs to clear his name. I don't want to give a spoiler alert of what he does but you should read the graphic novel to find out. I highly recommend this book. It is amazing.

HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Thomas Kemery
Mrs. Noble
Bell 6
3/23/15
     
       This book reminded me an awful lot of The Giver. It takes place in a world where society is
controlled by the government. But it a overwhelming control. Everyone must remain the same. Anyone who is physically or mentally advanced are placed with handicaps that decelerate their advanced ability. And what ends up happening is a man who has handicaps placed on him, takes them off and claims himself emperor. This might have been his way of getting back at the corrupt government. But it ends up backfiring because the handicap general comes in and kills him with a shotgun.

Satire

       I would say that this is an example of  horation satire. Its horation because it ridicules the absurdities of humans and does make people have a "wry smile". In this cartoon, the cartoonist is simply making fun of the fact that college graduates will be in debt. They either don't have the money to pay off their college funds or they were not ready for a world with debt in it. It is laughed at because of the acceptance of the graduate. He knows what he has gotten himself into, making the reader have a laugh.