Research range target and purpose of satire.
Under which range does this satire fall? Who/what is its target and purpose? Which techniques are used to convey this purpose?
Finally, share a universal issue from one of your own current event cartoons and address its target and purpose.
Remember to extend your conversations with followup questions and comments
Satire seems to be a contradiction of itself. However, satire is more so criticizing and ridiculing others. In my opinion, satire seems to be another form of bullying minus the use of any physical harm. The target could be anyone or any object that may stick out to someone as not being "sexy" enough or "presentable". In my last cartoon, the picture showed construction workers buried up to their necks in the devastation that occurred in Japan. The picture was expressing the amount of work they have to do to get Japan back in order, which seemingly looked impossible. The target was Japan's mass destruction. The purpose was to inform the entire planet Earth that ultimately Japan may not be done this century, but that's what they are hoping it's complete.
ReplyDeleteThe satire used in this book was how people fight over the silliest things. In the book they were fighting over the way the others put bread on their toast. The target was the civil war that the Americans fought. It was basically mocking Americans in terms of them fighting with themselves. I personally believe the purpose of the book was to show everyone has their own opinions, whether you eat your butter below the bread or on top of the bread, everyone has a right to their own opinion. One big technique used was hyberbole because it was an exaggeration of the Civil War. One of my current events was a pro choice article (abortion). Its target and purpose was to raise awareness on abortion and how women have the right to choose, that its a private matter.
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4/24/11
Kalen, I am curious to know what makes you say that satire is a contradiction? I can see how you would say juvenalian satire could be bullying, but remember there is also horation satire which is lighthearted. Even with juvenalian satire, I would argue some people need the criticism.
ReplyDeleteChasity, it's interesting that you thought The Butter Battle Book was targeting the Civil War. That is the great thing about literature; it can be interpreted to mean different things for different people. Suess wrote it as a commentary on the Cold War. The meaning is the same. If we keep building bigger and better weapons, we will one day destroy this planet and everyone living here over something as silly as green paper. Great post Chasity. The bar is set people.
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ReplyDeleteThe satire used in this book is for the most ridiculous thing... the way they eat breakfast. They start something as serious as war, when for one they live on two different sides of the wall so they each are entitled to do as they wish. The book book was written during the Cold War which could possibly have a huge impact on the true meaning of what the author is trying to display in a children book. I would most likely have to agree with Chasity in the way that they use hyperbole to over-exaggerate something that's not so serious. One of my current event cartoons were based on the school budgets. I believe that its directed more towards the students rather than the school boards because the students are the ones who have to tolerate whatever they have in store for us next year. It talks about there being less money having to be cut, so its giving a good estimate of the funds that the schools will be receiving and the students will have a good idea of what to expect.
The satire from this book is to have people to realize that we argue and fight over things that doesn't matter. Instead, its target and purpose is to have the reader to finally realize how we pay atttention to the little detail instead of the main topic. In my article, the purpose is to inform others how they need to be aware how it doesn't mmatter how old you are you can die at any given moment , however the target is the public which in terms seem to think uts invincble or cant be touched.....
ReplyDeleteSatire is the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize stupidity. It was particulary used in the butter battle book to show how people fight and judge eachother over silly, minute things. Such as what side of the bread has butter on it. It was relating it to the civil war. It was mocking/ making fun of the war the Americans were fighting. The overall morale of the story was that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and way of life, whether you agree with it or not. The book then over exaggerated butter bread to relate the situation to war.One of my current events was about the merit pay, but that could transfer to budget cuts which is universal. The purpose of the corresponding cartoon was showing sarcasm about having to cut an arm and leg off for budget cuts.
ReplyDeleteKAITLYN HIGHSMITH
AP LANG 7B
K. Foster
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AP Lang
The satire from the book shows that the characters were arguing over where the butter on their toast belonged. Many people fail to realize is that this was actually just an imaginative way to create an illusion to the reader. The true topic is the Cold
War. As Mr. Schneider said we are so intrigued by other countries that if we continue to battle them, we are only destroying our own selves.
the satirical work in the book shows that these two natons are fighting over somethins so ridiculous as breakfast food. the history of the bo shows that when this book was published during Cold war era. The cocept of the war based was based on toast (target) which was similiar to the lilliput and blefuscu war. the similarities between the two is IRONIC (satire). The last cartoon i have done was the cartoon on the iphone tracking device the issues in present days i really didnt see a issue with tracking devices being in ipnones cna be very negative and also can be very positive. the target was the iphone the purpose was to show how concern people were with the trackin device. And to inform others about the tracking device who didnt know ~melanie johnson 1a
ReplyDeletethe satire used is juvenalian. Its target as the idea of war between two countries who use the same technology and try to wage war. The purpose i think is to sort of poke fun at the idea of war. The way it is conveyed is becaiuse it is a childs poem but also because the author uses the stalemate of the groups in the book to sort of trace back to the stalemate of nuclear war.
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5-6-11
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the satire is the use of excaggeration, and humor to show how people can fight over the slightest things. i would classify this as horatian. the target is those who aruge about unsignifact things or events. we tend to pay liitle attention to the big picture we would rather pay attention to the slightest things
ReplyDeleteThe book showed satire because they were arguing over which side of the bread the butter should go on. Dr. Suess makes up things, and exaggerates everything which is the technique he uses for satire. My last current event had to do with increasing speed limits. It's target is to everyone in the U.S. and to try to reduce accidents and the flow of traffic. Everyone already speeds anyway so they would be driving around the same speed.
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Johnny Brown
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The satire in the book is that two countries are battling over stupid/non-important things such as buttered toast. In one of my cartoons I had a truck with radioactive acid inside it with a guy saying "I love working in such an safe environment." Its about how their is radioactivity occuring in Japan after the earthquake. The target was pretty much everyone around the world showing the damages done to Japan because of the Earthquake. The purpose was to inform people about Japan's destruction & show that Japan really needs help and may never be the same/recover from this devastating earthquake.
The Satire of the book, the characters are arguing over the butter on which side of the bread. This is used as an analogy to reference the cold war. And how they are mocking the war about how we shouldn't be fighting each other in the first place. I see this everyday in racism. Everyone see's it. in schools, in public places; It's stupid. And pointless. Just like the book, in my opinion.
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Katelynn Manns
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The book The Butter Battle shows two countries fighting over which side of the bread the butter belongs on, the top or the bottom of the bread. This story symbolises the Cold War and how all life on earth could be destroyed by a nuclear war. This work shows satire by using breakfast food, a piece of bread, in place of a deadly war based on a conflict over something as senseless as breakfast itself!
The range of the satire is tricky, because it is over something as light-hearted as inferior or superior butter placement on toast, but it results in a small civil war, but my guts telling me juvenalien. What Seuss is trying to portray, is how ridiculous it is to start a fight over almost nothing, minor disagreements, turning molehills into mountains. As far as current events go, I recently saw a cartoon featuring Osama Bin Laden with a wreath entitled "HIDE N SEEK CHAMP 01-11", most would percieve it as another Yay-osamas-dead joke, but I took it as a stab at how the U.S. goverment took ten years to find a single man who had to be put on kidney dialasis multiple times a week, which is a procedure that can't be preformed just anywhere, so it wasn't like he was in a cave, or on an uncharted island. He was in a mansion located near the Local millitary base. I'm glad he can't cause anymore trouble, but im still SMH.
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Shannon LoGiudice
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The Butter Battle Book is obviously refering to the cold war. In how they were kind of competing in who had the better weapen. The satire used is juvanalian and extreme exaggeration was used. In my opinion one of the techniqus was also burlesque because the whole book was exaggerated to a ridiculous point.
The satire shown throughout The Butter Battle is related to the ridiculousness of the Cold war. Dr.Suess cleverly makes fun of the pettiness in the war by comparing to buttered bread. I believe the book targets both children and adults. When children read it they learn not to let small things bother them. When adults read it, the book has a deeper more historical meaning of anti-war.
ReplyDeleteOne of my political cartoons had to do with the school budget cuts. Its target is students, teachers, and parents because those are the people it will affect the most. I think its nonsensical to cut budget on one of the most important things, education.
Tarren W
1A
Satire is the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize stupidity. It was particulary used in the butter battle book to show how people fight and judge eachother over silly, minute things. The book was written during the Cold War which could possibly have a huge impact on the true meaning of what the author is trying to display in a children book.
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kristi=kay Parker
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The range of satire in the butter battle book is humor and exaggeration. It uses humor by the shape of the cartoon people and it uses exaggeration by when they put up the wall to seperate the different people so they wouldnt see the other people and start fighting. it also uses exaggeration by fighting over the way the people butter their toast. The target of the butter battle is eachother, it is eachother because each side of the people on the wall thinks that their toast should be buttered a exact way and the other side thinks different. the techniques used to convey the purpose of the butter battle book is when the two characters go back and fourth with their weapons to see who has the better weapon. Acurrent event cartoon is in pheines and ferb where the two boys go off on all these adventures and crate new things and their sister candace always tries to catch them and show thier mom and she gets evidence and the evidence always fails because it gets lost or stolen.
Meagen Hawkins
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7B
Satire is the use is exaggeration to criticize stupidity. It was used in the Butter Battle Book to show people how silly it is. Like when it says what side of the toast the butter goes on. relating it to the civil war. I think the irony and other things it uses is silly. It don't have any connection to the Civil war. They were making fun of the war and the Americans.
The Butter Batter Book was referring to the cold war. About two countries fighting over butter on the sides of the bread. That showed satire because of the arguing.But in a way it was making fun of how people can turn little things into war, such as butter with bread. Satire can be the use of humor and exaggeration and it used that when they would talk about little things war can be started over.
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the books seemed to be presenting the idea that real life wars often times happen over the silliest things.I believ this also talks about the arms race and how they know it wont end until one or both sides have blown each other up. the satire seemed to hev humor obviosly because it was a Dr. Seuss book. but it did seem to exagerate some things like how fast the arms race move and how sily things of war can be.
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5/23/11
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Devin: the satire used in this book is a silly type. It implies how two seperate people or different types of people or cultures over the silly things for no reason. The arguing in this book can be compared to that of the Cold War. There was also a use of Sarcastic Satire throughout the book. Its a Kids book that refers to non Kid things at all
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Courtney Chaney
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The Butter book is in spite of the cold war. Dr.Seus uses satire to express the the unecessaryness of war and how easily it can be start over foolishness.
Christian Morales
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The Butter Battle Book uses a juvenalian range of satire. it makes fun of the cold war in a playful yet intriguing way. it realy opens the readers eye to some of the ridiculousness of war in general.
The Book related to the cold war, how the war was ridiculous. how just like the story whom fought over something as little as butter on bread. The satire is what makes the book. Dr.Suess makes all his stuff using crazy rhetorical techniques, This is how he can sucessfully move peoples thoughts into thinking mode.
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NathanKing 5/25/11
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I beleive that the butter battle book is a great satire that would more likely be for the adults watching with thier children becuase of the overwhelming work choice of Dr. Sues and is a showing that most likely would inspire many older people other then the children intended. This satire can represent so many different wars that go on like our war on terror and the cold war and korean war.
Briana Lane
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The satire in the butter book is ridiculous and wants the reader to realize that people get mad very easily and dont understand that there is greater things to deal with than the butter on toast. this was related to the cold war and how the situation was made bigger than it actually was.
Helen Lamb
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The satire in The Butter Battle Book is Juvinalian(sp?). Dr. Suess was commenting on the sillyness of war, but he wasn't trying to be mean and hurtful about it. This book was a satire about the Cold War and how there was a whole war about political and economic ideologies. Thety fought a whole war over a preference, like in the Butter Battle Book were they fought a whole war over where they liked to put their butter.
Richard Cribb
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the range of the satire in the book The Butter Battle seems to be in the middle, even though most people claim it to be juvinalian.The book was only targeting the global issue of how human being seem to have a mind of wanting to dominate one another.This human character error could start from something silly like a laugh,but it gets immature when violence or an object to display it is brought into the situation. In which the author in the book used visual image to demonstrate it, and history to back it up with wars and genocides.At first I asked myself during the book, why would an author write about such an issue when the most likely of the audience would be of ones at a very young age? Then a flash came into my mind that stated to end a repeated failure of history one must learn it at a young age and learn the history of the failures.After reading this book I believe that our world history teacher should refer this written document into their lessons.
In the story, it's basically talking of war amounst people. Seeing as it is a childrens book, satire is used to hide as well show sybolism. The fact of the matter is that juvinalian irony makes light of situations (Cold War if we have to get techniical), but it also expresses the underline problems. It was put in by Dr.Sueuss to explain the sillyness in war. Seeing as this is a childrens book,the idea is that if you alter a childs mind, you alter the future. Under the claim of Dr.Seuss, it was agian putting in the fact they are worthless fights. War makes countries lose everything respect, lives, etc. But won things is won and it is usally pride, and you can't do much with pride at all.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that the satire in this book is sarcasm. I believe this because Dr.Suess was making fun of the war and how silly it was. The war was quite dum. Does it really matter that one person eats his bread with the butter side up and the other with the butter side down? In my opinion it doesnt matter because neither one was harmed by how the other ate its bread. This story also shows us that sometimes we fight and argue over things that dont really even matter.