Satire

Satire is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of humans. Mark Twain wrote an article ''Advice to Youth'' in 1882. This article is very satirical because he gives bad advice to the youth. Instead of him giving the youth good axamples or advices on being a better person, he makes fun of us and is encouraging us negatively. In one of his advices, he tells us that we should ''always obey our parents, when they are present''. He is trying to tell us that when our parents aren't around, we shouldn't have to listen to them. What Mark Twain is being is very satirical. He has no control over the youth and his bad advices aren't helping. If the youth are raised up correctly. with good examples, then their parents wouldn't have a problem with them. The youth today don't like to be told what to do. It's part of human nature. A good example is if parents tell their young ones to do the wrong thing, then they end up doing the right thing. Twain gave us all these bad advices and examples, but in a very decent way that wasn't cruel. This article isn't good for the youth because they can use him as an excuse or take his advice, but it is a very good example of Satire.

In one of the articles from The Onion, there is an article named Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet. People are using Satire to make fun of Al Gore's speech. In this article, they are using Satire by comparing Al Gore to superman's father placing his baby on a rocket to save him from planet earth. In his speech, he said we were in danger if we didn't do anything about global warming. Satire is explaining this speech to us in a ridiculous way, which gives us another good example of Satire.