Hop-Frog Or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs Analysis

Depending on level of prank, prank can be either funny or serious. When I was in eighth grade, there was a girl who always fell asleep in my social studies class. One day, before the class bell rang, my teacher decided to play a joke on the girl who fall asleep. While the girl was having a nap, my teacher made all the classmates to leave the room quietly. After the bell rang, we went inside the classroom and as expected, saw the girl looking puzzled. After knowing that the whole classmate played a prank on her, her face was very red, and her pupils lost its way. Although the girl did not complain about the prank we did, my friends and I felt sorry for having to be part of the prank that my teacher thought of. However, unlike most of the classmates, my teacher seemed content by the fact that the girl did not sleep during the class …show more content…
When the King makes a joke out of the Hop-Frog's weakness and acts cruel the Hop-Frog's friend, Trippetta, Hop-Frog plans a prank on the King and his seven ministers. In the story, Poe inclines the readers to feel that Hop-Frog's action of revenge are justified. When the King played a joke on Hop-Frog, Poe describes the Hop-Frog's situation with sympathy by using an adjective like poor. Also, the author emphasizes how the girl is mistreated, when the King "pushed her violently from him, and threw the contents of the brimming goblet in her face" (Poe). Through the mistreated actions, Poe creates the readers to feel sympathy toward Hop-Frog and opens the reader's mind to think that Hop-Frog's joke is reasonable. During the story, Poe describes the King as a tyrant and a monster. The author also describes the King's action as fierce and puts exclamation points at the end of the King's statement to demonstrate the King's brutal characteristics as in "Drink, I say! shouted the monster"