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Tidings Of Comfort And Joy

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Today we believe that we live in a society that is greater than the past in acceptance and we have achieve inequality among all people in our country as they are treated right however we are further from the truth than we realize as inequality ravage the land. This is due to the shaky foundation that was built in the past and still affects our minds today. A satirical piece named “Tidings of Comfort and Joy” shows how far we really gone with its satirical elements like juxtaposition, hyperbole, diminution, allusion, and verbal irony. With the use of these satirical element we can find the errors of our ways exaggerated in a comedic story about how we as a community truly view the Aboriginal people. “Tidings of Comfort and Joy” flip the narrative …show more content…

The Indigenous people are people to and they live in the forest in homes not of brick or concrete and ‘Myth of Progress’ identifies it with a colonial imaginary as people believe they have better condition; “‘Despite everything, even the First Nations should be grateful that the Europeans came here’ - this, after a discussion about residential schools.”(Myth of Progress, 118) this is especially argued as we take to the perspective of hudson and he he views his home and their home of the forest as “He loaded the CD player, sprayed the pine scent around the doorways, and turned up the heat just a little…the house had a warm and festive air to it...The indian camp was clogged with ferns and nettles and cedar bush.”(King, 12-13) The satirical piece uses this information to create a juxtaposition from the indoor house and the wild forest even the grammar is improper like how Hudson and friends see the Indigenous peoples they owned. It can be argued that it is just two cultures living side by side and in many culture can also be juxtaposition making this not important like how the desert region can juxtapose the pine vegetated forest. This doesn’t denies the fact that the Aboriginals and Hudson are two different people with two different lifestyle only connect by the similar regions in where they live in. The comedy comes in on how the scene began in a warm and cozy environment to a cold and uncomfortable area they have to search

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