Night Vale Satire

Over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled Night by Elie Wiesel, it tells about a kid name Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. This novel will will also explain his thoughts/feelings during this tragic event. During the tragic event, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.

Examine how satire is used in the poetry of Bruce Dawe to criticise aspects of the society in which he lives. Illustrate your examination by close reference to at least two of Dawe's poems.

People often write off animated films as childish and lacking any depth. However, the movie, Wall-E, points a large microscope at our society and our potential future. In the movie Wall-E, it’s a robot name Wall-E and Ben Burtt’s play’ him. Also, there are other characters is Eve and Elissa Knight play’s her. There's a that they go on because the planet earth doesn’t have a living plant except one. They have to place the plant in the place that the plant will go so they can get to earth. The Captain is played by Jeff Garlin and, the Captain had a hard time to get the plant into the deposit that it’s supposed to go in. Satire is used for humor and poke fun at a thing that is happening like when the place is in the chair they are too lazy to get up and do their own things. Also, they have the robots bring them the food. It pokes fun at humans because humans are lazy and us humans what other people or robots to get are things cause the humans made robots so people wouldn’t have to get up. They also wanted to show what happens to the earth if we don’t take care of it and, it will turn all to trash and doesn’t look like a nice place to live. The director Andrew Stanton used the movie, Wall-E, and satire as a way to criticize and comment on technology and environment in our society.

Chris Lilley's Summer Heights High is a highly controversial mockumentary that showcases 3 different over exaggerated characters. One of them is Jonah Takalua, a stereotypical Tongan delinquent. Many have praised his work, saying that it is a clever use of satire to convey important criticisms of today's society. However after learning about satire myself throughout this unit I have determined that Summer Heights High is an unsuitable and highly ineffective show for teaching satire in secondary school due to the high levels of crude language and stereotypical humour shown in Jonah that conceals the satirical techniques used. Jonah has been represented extremely ineffectively through the poor use of the satirical techniques of exaggerated caricature and ridicule which certainly have the potential to influence students negatively. Lilley’s social criticism of the view that all Polynesian students are seen as trouble makers, is lost by his overemphasis on the very behaviours he is satirising.

In Sea Oak, George Saunders applies satire to examine social classes. Specifically, he utilizes the narrator’s aunt, Aunt Bernie, to explain a valuable lesson: one should appreciate what they have by making the most out of it. It is essential for us to acknowledge what we have, on the grounds that one day it might be gone. Inside Sea Oak, Aunt Bernie experiences two lives: a before life and an after-life.

In the Belgian Congo, rubber plantation owners cut off the hands of their workers if their quota was not met. Mistreatment of the people by the country imperializing them was a common practice. King Leopold II used the Congo as a cash cow while lying about helping the Congolese natives. Barbara Kingsolver wrote The Poisonwood Bible in order to shine a light on the United States’ and Belgium’s complicity in the Congo’s political turmoil. She was thought to be “one of the most controversial writers of her time” (“Barbara Kingsolver (1955-)”). Throughout many of her novels, she used allegory and satire in an attempt to open people’s eyes. More specific themes in The Poisonwood Bible include not only allegory and satire, but also cultural arrogance

Laughter is a crucial thing in our everyday lives and is something you will inevitably do when you are reading Shel Silverstein's poems. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Uncle Ben found a mouse in the house or what a woman in a mink coat fought for? In all of his poems Shel Silverstein uses humor to make a connection with the reader. Shel Silverstein was a jack of all trades, not only was he a fantastic author, but he was also a musician! Although in Shel Silverstein's work he does not have a deeper meaning or connection to his life, often times his poems have a moral. In all of Shel Silverstein’s poems, you can see his creative and humorous sides.

Heathers: How it relates to today On Thursday February 15, 2018, I had the honors of seeing the musical Heathers. This was the first time I had seen a musical from the theater department here at UNCG. Initially, I was nervous about the content I would see as well as how the theater department would execute the musical. When the house opened up, I was amazed!

Fantasia also revealed another secret from her past. She says in her memoir she was raped in the ninth grade by a popular boy on whom she had a crush. She claims he abused her in the school auditorium, and she went straight home and got into bed. "

The play Fences, by August Wilson, is a story based in the 1950’s during the civil rights movement when African Americans were being discriminated against, one particular family being the Maxsons. The Maxsons are a family consisting of Rose, an obedient wife, Troy, a disloyal husband, Cory, their hardworking son, and their other lazy son, Lyons. The main plot of Fences is that Troy is an alcoholic and a cheating husband who is basically stuck living in his prior baseball days and how he goes about being a successful father and earning a living. “The game of baseball has long been regarded as a metaphor for the American Dream—an expression of hope, democratic values, and the drives for individual success” (Koprince). Koprince portrays that

The Grim Reaper must be recompensed for your atrocities against the poor animals that suffer the butchery your country allowed in Yulin.

If you have never listened to Welcome to Night Vale, it is very hard to describe Welcome to Night Vale. True, it is a friendly desert community, but it is so much more. As someone who has listened to Night Vale for years, now doing so while I make dinner most nights, I was skeptic that the magic and weirdness conveyed as you as you listened to Cecil broadcast on his community radio show would translate to the page. Yet, much as advertised, this novel is a perfect introduction into Night Vale if you have never listened and a great companion piece for long time listeners to the show. It captures the fun, weird, creepy, and downright horrifying aspects of everyday life in a town where time is weird and it's really hard to leave.

1. The series has saved a pig farmer's business (LINK 1 & 2)Small farms don't seem to be so profitable, sure you can get by if you sell your product to the locals, but it's not enough to make a living out of. Except for this man, who owns a farm in Ireland, Tandragee, near the location the show is filmed. His name is Kenny Gracey and he has bred Age Pigs in order to fit Game Of Thrones' setting, which resulted in the producers to buy the pigs off him. 2.

This film shows the darkness in all of society from the masochism of Devlin to Sebastian and the Nazi’s. This cruelty and darkness of the time and the power of

Satire is a literary device used by writers typically to critique society or an individual. It can be done a variety of ways, including humor, irony, and ridicule. An example of a writer using satire to critique society would be Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Using a variety of techniques, Austen criticizes how society viewed novels and the people who write them by parodying common tropes in novels.