Original+Satire

__ Satire Description __ · ** Issue - **Materialism and selfishness in Americans compared to the poverty that occurs in Africa is the issue that I have chose for our satire project. Some, not all, Americans are very materialistic about things and selfish. They can go out on a huge shopping spree and buy all the fancy things and then see in the newspaper about the poverty and all the starving children and not even care. Maybe they do care but that’s not how they seem, from the outside it’s just as if they don’t care and think they are way better than everyone else. In my satire the ‘everyone else’ being Africa. It’s a problem because it’s sad to see these kids in Africa no shoes, raggedy clothes, not a very good home, malnourished. It is just not right and I really hate seeing it. · ** Target **-The people who are to blame are the Americans who are in the ‘higher class’ and choose to spoil their children or even spoil themselves to the point where it’s almost like a need to have all the fancy. I’m certainly not blaming all Americans for this but there are some that are able to be blamed. What the people aren’t doing would be helping the people in need in Africa. That is what starts to cause the issue. · ** Perspective- ** Americans are generally good people, but when they sit around and shop and brag and say things like ‘Oh hey not to worry the price doesn’t matter because I have a lot of money ‘just makes me mad. I just want to put it out there that there are children and adults in Africa that need help. They need clothes and food and possibly even better homes. I just wish people would stop worry about all the material things and stop being selfish and help. · ** Techniques- ** ** 1. **** Distortion and exaggeration of situations. ** ** 2. **** Allusions to show comparisons…  ** ** 3. **** Irony. **  · **  Reasoning-  ** ** 1. **** I distorted the sizes to show America as being bigger than Africa. Its exaggerating the size and also showing America as being ‘greater’ than Africa. ** ** 2. **** Allusions are e all the brand names I put inside the United States to compare the materialism to Africa which has all these words inside one bold one being poverty. ** ** 3. **** The irony in my satire is the little girl with the speech bubble coming out and it says “Wow, I have such a hard decision to make. Which dress should I wear today?” **