Everyone has been in a situation where they have felt powerless against someone. Looking and hoping that there will be someone to save them from their unpleasant encounters. Is there anyone that is bold enough to stand up to a bully?There is a story called “Priscilla and the Wimps” by Richard Peck that is a high comedic text that uses hyperbole and irony to convey the idea that what goes around comes around. First, Peck’s characters are really caricatures. Priscilla isn’t the smallest of children, in fact she is the biggest person in the school, to describe this caricature he use hyperboles such as, “Picture a girl named Priscilla Roseberry, and you’ll be light years off… Even beautiful, in a bionic way”(Peck 344). This caricature represents
