GUYS, MUTANT FLEAS ARE TERRORIZING THE MIDWEST! Well, not really. Dave Barry's story about mutant fleas is basically a fake news article, that is very unrealistic, making fun of the way that news reporters blow things out of proportion, and tell a story, rather than what actually happened. There are not actually mutant fleas and giant flying cats, and berry hints at this in the story. Dave Barry's short story called “mutant fleas terrorize midwest”, there were lots of examples of high humor, more than low humor. In most cases, there are examples of irony, and hyperbole, to making satire for us have somewhat of a sensible chuckle. Like the title, these examples include tax plans, mutant vampire fleas, and the story going back on itself when it talks about giant flying cats.
One of the elements of humor in this text, is irony. The reader will not find an area in the text without coming by even a small bit of irony, that makes the reader just feel a small laugh in their head, nothing big. One example of irony is in the first two sentences, were the news reporter says “I was going to write about the president's revolutionary new tax plan will affect you, but it occurred to me that I really don't care about how the revolutionary new tax plan will affect you.” This is very ironic, because is it not the job of a …show more content…
In most cases, there are examples of hyperboles, and irony, adding a satirical note to make us smile. To me the overall meaning of the text, is to show the follies of news reporters, sugar coating or over exaggerating news stories. This is kind of a problem , because people want the real stories, and not the sugar coated ones. If all we get is story added on to the real story, we will believe it because it comes from a “credible” source. Dave Barry does a very nice job of using these comic effects to show satire.
One of the elements of humor in this text, is irony. The reader will not find an area in the text without coming by even a small bit of irony, that makes the reader just feel a small laugh in their head, nothing big. One example of irony is in the first two sentences, were the news reporter says “I was going to write about the president's revolutionary new tax plan will affect you, but it occurred to me that I really don't care about how the revolutionary new tax plan will affect you.” This is very ironic, because is it not the job of a …show more content…
In most cases, there are examples of hyperboles, and irony, adding a satirical note to make us smile. To me the overall meaning of the text, is to show the follies of news reporters, sugar coating or over exaggerating news stories. This is kind of a problem , because people want the real stories, and not the sugar coated ones. If all we get is story added on to the real story, we will believe it because it comes from a “credible” source. Dave Barry does a very nice job of using these comic effects to show satire.