Satire

Satire -A literacy tone used to make fun of human weaknesses ,often with the intent of correcting or changing the subject of the satiric attack.

I just read "Advice to youth" an article written by mark Twain .He picked out six topics to provide advice in such as Always obeying parents, be respectful to your superiors, Go to bed early, Be careful when lying, Never handle firearms carelessly, And read.

I consider this article a satire because he took important topics and turned it around into a joke. Instead of giving us good advice on how to treat our parent better and how to treat others too, It adviced the youth to only listen to our parent when they are present and to practice lying so that we wont get caught and then later look stupid when found in the lie, He also think lying is a beautiful art. He even adviced us that before playing with an firearm to make sure it loaded and not old and rusty.(hilarious).
I think that Twain is trying to tell the youth that we don't need advice to become better, we just need to start learning on our own how to improve on the topics he selected which is every teenagers problem. But eventually we will grown out of all theses topics. To deliver his message Twain tries to use examples and make them as funny as can be.To make us the reader laugh and understand that life is short. Why take it so serious.
This is a successful piece because its something we the teenagers go through everyday and get upset bout some of the things he pointed out and when he puts them in a joking matter it easier to understand that maybe its not so bad to listen to our parent to avoid violence and that everyone is bad at lying. Even with practice ,so i believe.

What I learned from this article?

Actually I didn't learn anything I wasn't already doing. So I guess I'm a normal teen.

I read an satire article in The Onion website and it was based on Al Gore and global warming.  It was very funny. Al Gore is known for caring a lot about the earth and how we the people can make our place a better environment. In this article they use the superman story to make fun of Gore, With a picture with him putting his son in a rocket and sending him to a another safer planet just like superman's father did to him when he was a baby. It very funny because he really does try hard for people to listen to him,but the public just laugh because eventually the world is gonna end  without it being anyone fault. We weren't meant to live for ever.