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2. Define "satire". Don't just copy and paste a definition from another source. Read the definition, and then explain it in your own words. Once you have done that, provide a few modern-day examples of satire (television shows, movies, magazines, etc.).
When I read the book definition of satire I developed my own interpertation of the word. To me it means imitating a real life situation by making fun. It is also making some kind of point when you think about it. Some examples of satire is the cartoon t.v show Family Guy. Their trying to say that men in their middle ages just like to have fun by drinking acting stupid and dumb. Some men are actually like that but personally I think the majority of them are not. The Simpson is like that also. The way they treat their grandad is similar to the way we treat younger people treat the elders. but not actually throwing them out the car and things of that nature. We don't really have any interest in them especially if their not one of our family members.
3. Read "A Modest Proposal", which may be difficult at first, but if you stick with it, the message will become more clear. Once you are finished reading, you should write a short response to what you read (4-5 sentences), and explain how this is a work of satire.
"A Modest Proposal was really hard trying to understand and it did not become clear to me in the end. In the beginning I understood that they are talking about beggars and homeless people mainly women. It is true that most women have more babies than they can provide for without baby fathers. As the mother struggles and turn to handouts all the time and try to do as much for ther children as she possibly can the children usually grows up to be theives and things of that nature anyway.
4. Read either "from the Diary of Samuel Pepys" or "from A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe, both of which can be found in the purple anthology. Once you have finished reading, write a 1-2 paragraph response to what you have read. Please be sure to include some direct evidence from the text to help show what you are responding to.
I really like the story "From the Diary of Samuel Pepys". The man named Pepys is quite an interesting man. He was a really secrective man. He kept a diary that he was so protective over that he wrote it in three different languages. "He doubly safegaurded the most intimate details of his life by recording them in a private foreign language that appears to mix together Latin, French, and Spanish words." I thought that was the most creative thing anybody could ever do. Pepy's seems to be a nice man but he do not like liars. "Where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about."
In the story this big fire occured which burned down a lot of houses. It got bigger and bigger and and starting spreading wider and wider. Everybody tried to grab as much as their belongings as they could."Extraordinary good goods carried in carts and on backs." I don't know what "pulling houses down" meant but obviously it was something to help and save them, but eventually the fire got so out of hand that they couldn't do that anymore. "I have been pulling down houses. But the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it."
5. What do you think was most important to people living in this time? Write a 1-2 paragraph response to this question in which you use direct evidence from the texts you read to support whatever arguments you make. Clearly their belongings was the most important to them. Their houses was also very important to people living in this time. Those was the two things they struggled so hard to keep from the fire."And did by moonshine carry much of my goods into the garden, and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money an diron-chest into my cellar-as thinking that the safest place. That was what everybody was going after.
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