While reading an argumentative article, one learns to expect stern verbosity and intellectual perplexity. An exception to this norm, Dave Barry pleasantly plays with rhetoric and satire to convey an opinion while simultaneously humoring the reader. His article, “Discover Your House,” is so saturated with jokes that at a first glance, one may feel as if his purpose was simply to make them laugh; it seems as if it provides no real objective. This, however, is his unforeseen genius. Dissecting his prose wit by quip unfolds how Barry 's uniquely handled wordplay manifests his argument. He accomplishes this through humor, without offending a single person. Any zealot could toil in a quest to build his vocabulary and grasp the intricacy of good writing;
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Rather than angering, Barry employs this childish game to show the childish nature of his topic. As sarcasm accomplishes, Barry presents one idea while he blatantly intends another – and it’s obvious to the reader. In the first two sentences of his piece, Barry reminds parents that “summer vacation is here, and if you have kids, you know what that means! It’s time to put them up for adoption!” The seriousness of this statement mustn’t even be questioned, which makes sarcasm the ideal rhetoric to blatantly state the stress kids create while on vacation. Later in the article, Barry cues parents to recall “the tremendously long car trip to a place that your kids will find hideously boring because none of their friends are there,” and similarly proposes that: “In the end: stay home, you and your kids, hanging out, hour after quality hour. It’ll be tons of fun! Until they escape.” Both sentences encompass one aspect of vacation that could stand solitarily yet still satisfy the query: kids are a pain on vacation. This realization urges parents to consider if the laboriousness of domestic vacations - especially by way of car - is fruitful at all. While visiting grandparents, going to the beach or amusement park, etc. may be enjoyable for a briefly, sooner than later they will yearn to see their friends. Barry manipulates sarcasm and satire to inspire a response, probably a laugh, that will impose acknowledgement of his argument: that kids enjoy their time with their friends, possibly more than vacation itself. Through recognizing the futility of domestic vacations, parents are further propelled to ponder if vacation is really worth
Rather than angering, Barry employs this childish game to show the childish nature of his topic. As sarcasm accomplishes, Barry presents one idea while he blatantly intends another – and it’s obvious to the reader. In the first two sentences of his piece, Barry reminds parents that “summer vacation is here, and if you have kids, you know what that means! It’s time to put them up for adoption!” The seriousness of this statement mustn’t even be questioned, which makes sarcasm the ideal rhetoric to blatantly state the stress kids create while on vacation. Later in the article, Barry cues parents to recall “the tremendously long car trip to a place that your kids will find hideously boring because none of their friends are there,” and similarly proposes that: “In the end: stay home, you and your kids, hanging out, hour after quality hour. It’ll be tons of fun! Until they escape.” Both sentences encompass one aspect of vacation that could stand solitarily yet still satisfy the query: kids are a pain on vacation. This realization urges parents to consider if the laboriousness of domestic vacations - especially by way of car - is fruitful at all. While visiting grandparents, going to the beach or amusement park, etc. may be enjoyable for a briefly, sooner than later they will yearn to see their friends. Barry manipulates sarcasm and satire to inspire a response, probably a laugh, that will impose acknowledgement of his argument: that kids enjoy their time with their friends, possibly more than vacation itself. Through recognizing the futility of domestic vacations, parents are further propelled to ponder if vacation is really worth