Use Of Satire In Summer Heights High

“How to poison the earth” by Linnea Saukko can be seen in two different aspects. The first one would be by looking at it in a literal way, in which it will make it a very harsh, inhumane and cold text. On the other hand, it could be seen as a satire, sarcastic and ironic text in which Saukko expects to catch the reader’s attention. Saukko exaggerates the sarcasm, and satire in her writing in order to make the readers realize and understand the main purpose of her essay, which is to warn readers about threats to the future of our planet.

The author has made up his own words and phrases, such as “Atomic Trans-Somgobulating Yectofantriplutonizanziptomistic” (Pilkey 23). The author uses many slang words and phrases such as “Yo! Big Melvin!” (Pilkey 63). In the beginning of the book, it states that Harold, George, and Captain Underpants, who is also known as Mr. Krupps are involved in a bank robbery. This is not something parents want their children learning to imitate and that it is okay. Many parents correct the inappropriate actions of children. “George and Harold went out into the hallway [at school] and started switching the letters around on a bulletin board” (Pilkey 149). This behavior is unacceptable, and it would give children an idea to go around and intentionally vandalize. Vandalism is a serious offense, and it should not be seen as tolerable as

Purpose: The purpose of this memo is to give detailed instructions on how to restructure the Austrian television show Summer Heights High to be appropriate, relatable and relevant to American audiences on the ABC Network.

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.

Profanity should be the last reason a great novel should be banned. After all, it is reality, it is how people talk, and in the case of Harris and Me, its definitely how young boys talk to each other. The use of the language is hardly profanity at all. For example, Harris says, “Well you can just blow it out your butt you old cow, you ain’t no grown-up to tell me what to do. How the hell am I supposed to know things if I don’t go ahead and ask them? (Gary Paulsen, Harris and Me .7)” The words feel elementary to me, he says butt instead of ass, and old cow instead of old heifer. Maybe it’s not the actual words that parents are losing their minds about, but more about

Specifically desensitizing intimate practices like intercourse and exploiting the image of women; minimizing them into nothing more than sex objects that can be taken advantage of. For example, "Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it" - Rick Ross U.O.E.N.O. This lyric fails to express any real emotion, it fails to elicit thought, it functions only to glorify rape culture and it is a grammatical tragedy. “New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits, chinese food makes me sick”-L.F.O Summer girls. There is no coherent well-thought-out expression of emotion in this line. It vaguely jumps from one subject to another leaving the listener confused as to what the lyricist's message

Use the guided analysis exercises within the lesson as a model for this part of the assignment.

Summer of Corruption- The second story, Apt Pupil, is about a straight A teenager, who is greatly interested in the Halocaust and Hitler. What he discovers is shocking... and boy does that change his life. His grades begin to fall, he's hardly ever home, and worst of all he's turn into an

The national identity of Australia has also developed strangely when dealing with taboo, especially with the younger Australians. Many youths no longer find many profanities as rude or taboo as the older generations, in particular with words like “fuck”, “shit” and “bloody” which used to be packed with a certain punch. In fact, many of these words are actually used as interjections (“Shit! No way!”),

Many teenage books have profanity in the books to prove the point of topics that the writer wants to tell the audiences point of view. The Literature today is more mature then most of the the children and teenagers that is reading this type of mature literature. Having strong language in books makes the books more interesting and more intense with a lot more mature topic the for readers. In the numerous articles, “Darkness to visible”, “Sick-lit”, and “Potty Mouth”, arise the question: Should explicit content be available to young readers? Profanity in literature reveals real content that everyday young adults go through. However, profanity should be tolerated, but monitored to a certain extent.

The corruptness of music today seems to be linked to the crude language and aggression found particularly in hip-hop and rap music. Some rap artists use vulgar language in their lyrics that are easily adoptable by teens (Holden). Not only have certain lyrics influenced the way teens speak but also their actions. An article on Headliners.org stated that “lyrics in the music are too violent and are to blame for many problems.” The problems range anywhere from suicide and aggression towards women to underage drinking and drug use. Lyrics are not only to blame, but also what people see in artists’ music videos can affect what they do (Doaks). The urge to emulate these rap musicians has escalated quickly causing a spike in rebellious tendencies among teens.

The movie The Breakfast Club teems with vernacular that adds value its descriptive language. Much of the vernacular, like The Catcher in the Rye, is used according to the time period the pieces were released. A prime example of vernacular is when Bender imitated his father saying, “Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk” (Hughes, 1985). Other pieces of vernacular include babbling, hot beef injection, totaled, nads,

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.

For Summerhill, controversies are habitual to them. Usually in a normal school, children should follow all the rules and regulation of the school and if not then they get severe punishments. Punishments might be physical also. And children in normal schools have to give exams by reading all the bulky huge books and should pass the exam. On top if that , parents have lots of expectation from a child that he should study hard in school, get a good degree and make parents proud in the society . In my personal view, I think this way parents are giving a lot more pressure to child than what actually a child can bear. There are many cases where children mostly teenagers, commit suicide because they fail to meet their parents' expectations even after trying hard. It is not necessary that a person gets success in whatever he or she does. This is what children of Summerhill knows well.

Our social world is becoming increasingly sexualised as pornographic references and imagery are progressively more intertwined with mainstream media, social media, advertising, and pop culture. According to Tyler (2011), this intertwinement of pornography and pop culture consists of five fragments; the beginning of the pornographic boom, the