Satirical Techniques Used In The Film, 500 Days Of Summer

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.

When was the last time you experienced a good laugh? Maybe you were watching a show, reading a book, or even hanging out with friends. Either way you were probably observing, comedy. Which in literary terms is a genre of literature that is created in a humorous nature for a purpose of making people laugh. A television show that can be categorized as a comedy is Parks and Recreation. The show is about a crew members that work in a parks department for the government in a small town called Pawnee, Indiana. The main characters consist of Leslie Knope who later in the show marries Ben Wyatt. April ludgate who later marries Andy. Ron Swanson, Donna, Tom, and Garyy. They all work together trying to make the city of Pawnee a better place. They play pranks on eachother, but also have strong friendly bonds.

First off, Ray Bradbury wrote a variety of Social Commentary into his book, Fahrenheit 451. The first sign in the book that something was wrong with this society was when Montag’s wife had overdosed. She was listening to the Seashells and watching the T.V. and those things brainwash everybody into thinking about how society is supposed to be. She is brainwashed and had forgotten about taking pills so she had overdosed before. Bradbury wrote, “... In her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight… An instant before his foot hit the object on the floor, he knew he would hit such an object” (12). He tells of how Montag found his wife on the bed. Dead and with pills on the ground, overdosing and not realizing it because she was so tranced with the radios in her ears. Then later, Clarisse does a whole social justice speech on how school and the people in it are, which is relatable to today’s way of school life to some extent. She says, “Oh, they don’t miss me… I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix… I’m very social… It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn’t it?... Being with people is nice. But I don’t think it’s social to get a bunch of people together and not let them talk, do you? An hour of Tv class, an hour of basketball or baseball or painting pictures… we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answer at you… That’s not social to me at all… But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?” (29-30). She goes on about how school life was for others and how the people were. It was an image of how teen life was. Effectively, this shows the variety of Social Commentary within the book.

But before he escapes Andy’s been doing the wardens taxes and he has made the warden rich with dirty money that Andy made clean. One day Andy tells Red about his dream of getting out of prison and moving to Mexico and living by the ocean and fixing up a boat. This shows the subject of happiness because that's Andy’s dream believing in it makes Andy happy. This connects to the theme through happiness Andy found happiness with friends and his dream, later when he escapes, he becomes rich and accomplishes his dream and achieves true happiness when Red gets out he moves in with

One is able to notice the clear connections between Fosters explanation of seasons, and the use of summer vacation in Oates’s short story. The first time summer vacation is mentioned in the story it is followed by mentioning Connie's desire for the boys the she often daydreams about. “...and the rest of the time Connie spent around the house - it was summer vacation - getting in her mother’s way and thinking, dreaming about the boys she met.”(Oates, 2) The trait of adulthood, romance, and sexual experience are all part of the characteristics of summer. The author uses summer in order to set the mood for this novel, as summer initially signifies this romance and sex in this story. The sex aspect of summer is not always used positively as it soon becomes part of Connie’s downfall. On the other side of summer’s characteristics, it can also represent a hot, dusty, and irritable mood. “It was a little flatter, as if the heat was finally getting to him.” (Oates, 4) At this point in the story things turn uncomfortable for Connie as she suspects that Arnold is not who he says he is. The heat of the

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Summer by Walter Dean Myers is a short, two stanzas, twelve lined poem where the author talks about the different reasons he likes summer. The tone of the poem is upbeat, showing excitement towered the season and the activities that come with it. I chose Summer because Myers paints a perfect picture of a summer day or evening from my childhood before technology took over and kids still played outside with other kids. Running through sprinklers and chasing your crush or being chased by your crush. Kids would be beyond tired and hot but keep going and when they went to bed, excited to do it all over again the next day.

“It has been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands.” (Bradbury, 1954) In the dystopian story, “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury, it takes place on the planet, Venus. A group of children, along with scientists get to live there, while being educated at the underground school. Margot, who is only 9 years old, wasn't born on Venus like the other children, but instead on Earth. She’s the only one who remembers how the sun felt through her skin and how beautiful it shined. On the contrary, the other children are jealous of her because she has some memory of the sun, while they don’t. Jealousy caused the children to harass, isolate, and make her depressed.

Kids can be  cruel when they are envious as shown in the short story, “All Summer In A Day,” by Ray Bradbury. The sun is what makes Margot happy, and when that gets taken away from her. In this short story there is several acts of cruelty to Margot by her classmates. These kids live in the planet of Venus, and they haven’t seen the sun in seven years, except for Margot. The kids are only nine years old so they haven’t seen the sun since they were two years old, but Margot moved there from Earth when she was four and she remembers the sun and that makes the other kids envious. In the beginning of the story it is the day that the sun is supposed to come out for the first time in seven years! The kids were skeptical except for Margot because she wanted to see it so bad. The kids were starting to prepare for the sun to come out but they were sitting inside waiting. While they were waiting the kids decided to lock Margot in a closet and not let her out. When the sun came out all the kids ran outside to play in the sun that felt so warm and nice on their skin, except for Margot, who was sitting inside in the dark closet. When the kids came back inside they felt sorry for leaving Margot in there. Envy can lead people to commit awful acts and cause shame as demonstrated throughout the character's actions in, “All Summer In A Day.”

In this movie I detected two running themes. The first was the progression of a new era in a young boy’s life; he started school. The young boy, Mancho, was nervous and afraid on his first day of school. In fact, he ended wetting himself when called to the front of the class by the teacher. This scene and the way his mother acted when dropping him off, making sure to talk to the teacher about his difficulty breathing, made it clear that it wasn’t just the start of a new year but the first time he was able to go to

During the Age of Enlightenment, people began believing in and relying upon rational thought instead of religious dogma to explain the world. This newfound emphasis on rationality promoted a breadth of freedom in speech that was previously unknown, a fact which was utilized by philosophers such as John Locke, Rousseau, and Sir Isaac Newton. In addition, the Age of Enlightenment produced famous writers who didn’t agree with the irrational politics and old traditions of their respective countries, and instead relied upon wit and satire to expose the corruption and poor human condition existing around them. These Enlightenment writers use irony in their satires to get their interpretations regarding the human condition across.

500 days of summer is a story where a boy meets a girl, he falls in love with her yet she does not truly love him. The movie shows the progression of the relationship of Tom and Summer. It begins when they first meet when Summer begins working as a secretary where Tom works and progresses to them casually dating. Summer is obviously hesitant and against relationships yet Tom is overly eager to find the perfect girl. The story ultimately shows the demise and after effects of their relationship. At first thought anyone could think this is the typical love story where the movie casually progresses to them living happily ever after. This is not that kind of fairy tale love story.

In Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut uses satire in the topics of war, aliens, fate and the reasons for life itself. In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the author uses many literary devices to bring across his point including black humor, irony, wit and sarcasm. He mainly uses satire throughout the book. Satire is a literary device found in works of literature that uses irony and humor to mock social convention, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous to make a point.

In terms of the five elements of drama, the plot of the film follows a young protagonist, Harry Potter who, upon realizing he is a wizard, is thrust into the magical, mystical world of wizardry as he attends the school of magic, Hogwarts. He meets a few friends and enemies there and he learns more and more about his past and his destiny to fight evil. The characters are: the protagonist, Harry Potter; his friends, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Dumbledore, and Hagrid; and his enemies, Voldemort and Draco Malfoy. The setting of the movie is current and it takes place in Hogwarts, a school of wizards. (imdb.com). The theme of the movie is good verses evil and the mood is mystical and magical.

Two components that have an immense impact on the quality and caliber of a film are the editing and sound found within the film. These two aspects alone can make or break a film. In the film The Kings of Summer, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, these two elements collaborate to highlight certain emotions and key moments in the film’s plot. Some of the sub-elements of these two components that can easily be identified within the film include the flashforward, the flashback, both nondiegetic and diegetic sound, semi diegetic sound, graphic matching and voice offs. Within the film The Kings Of Summer, editing and sound are methodically and tactfully utilized in order to produce a film that is both entertaining and meaningful for the audience.