Jaylen Burnham
Mrs. Hicks
AP English IV
January 25, 2018
A Revolutionary Analysis Social criticism (really) is nothing new, but that doesn’t stop Dave Barry’s satirical column, “The right to bear clubs,” from smacking down the fairway and into the shortsighted holes that are the general public and the U.S. government at large when regulation of the 2nd amendment steps onto the green. If people can make a gun out of golf clubs, what is the purpose in dismantling that aforementioned right? Through Dave Barry’s use of outlandish imagery and cleverly disguised sarcasm, he sets out to make quite the horatian mockery of those so-called “revolutionary” ideas. With this mind, Barry delivers some rather potent sarcasm, thereby juxtaposing an
Mrs. Hicks
AP English IV
January 25, 2018
A Revolutionary Analysis Social criticism (really) is nothing new, but that doesn’t stop Dave Barry’s satirical column, “The right to bear clubs,” from smacking down the fairway and into the shortsighted holes that are the general public and the U.S. government at large when regulation of the 2nd amendment steps onto the green. If people can make a gun out of golf clubs, what is the purpose in dismantling that aforementioned right? Through Dave Barry’s use of outlandish imagery and cleverly disguised sarcasm, he sets out to make quite the horatian mockery of those so-called “revolutionary” ideas. With this mind, Barry delivers some rather potent sarcasm, thereby juxtaposing an