In what ways and for what purpose does the author use satire to represent a particular community, issue, idea or belief?
This article was written addressing the issues of white and wealth privilege on the avoidance of responsibilities for mistakes that would generally put the offender in serious punishment. In the article, a fake story is described where a wealthy white teen male drives under the influence and crashes into a families minivan. The entirety of the article consists of the boy and others on his side (family, officials on the side of the family, etc.) discussing how lucky he was to have fought against punishment and come out of the situation unscathed in both reputation and physical health. The way this situation is addressed through irony, describing a situation that should have the opposite outcome. The act of satire provides a humorous way for the audience to look at the situation and see how faulty this is and its prevalence in a western, wealth centric, and patriarchal society. It allows the reader, regardless of their stance on the problem, to see the perspective of the accident and situation of how it was handled, in a perspective that makes it seem ridiculous.
Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence
This article was written addressing the issues of white and wealth privilege on the avoidance of responsibilities for mistakes that would generally put the offender in serious punishment. In the article, a fake story is described where a wealthy white teen male drives under the influence and crashes into a families minivan. The entirety of the article consists of the boy and others on his side (family, officials on the side of the family, etc.) discussing how lucky he was to have fought against punishment and come out of the situation unscathed in both reputation and physical health. The way this situation is addressed through irony, describing a situation that should have the opposite outcome. The act of satire provides a humorous way for the audience to look at the situation and see how faulty this is and its prevalence in a western, wealth centric, and patriarchal society. It allows the reader, regardless of their stance on the problem, to see the perspective of the accident and situation of how it was handled, in a perspective that makes it seem ridiculous.
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