During this satire project we learned many types of satire. Some of the different types of satire include: juvenalian, reversal, incongruity, parody,  horatian, and exaggeration satire. My group worked on reversal satire. Reversal satire is when an author subverts a situation to present an inversion of how things really are back to the reader.

When I do group projects I always get nervous and hope that my group members do their part so it doesn’t bring my grade down. In this project everyone did do their own part of the project. A good example of reversal satire is The Office episode when Dwight starts a fire and locks all the doors because no one expected him to do that. Our class activity was going to be playing dodgeball but you had to wear mittens and you had to catch the ball instead of doge the ball but we didn’t get to do it because we switched to online school.

One of my favorite and most interesting lessons that we went over was clutter. I think this was a very helpful lesson. I learned a lot that will help me in college when writing papers. It can be also be beneficial when writing resumes and doing work in future jobs. 

Even though clutter was my favorite lesson it was hard. The hard part was after getting done with an essay and then going back and having to reword a lot of my sentences. I also didn’t like working in groups and having to rely on others, even though it ended okay. Some advice that I have for incoming seniors is always do your homework and don’t put it off. Also always be ready and prepared for a test.

Some things in Brave New World that I learned is how society is portrayed in the novel. People in the society of Brave New World are born from test tubes in a lab and are conditioned to follow standards to which they were created. People are also always happy. There are no emotions in society, people are not allowed to love another or mourn one’s death. It makes me happy that our society is not like that and we are not controlled like that, we get to have our own thoughts.

One of the themes of Brave New World is the battle between truth and happiness. Society is built on happiness, there is no sadness or pain in the world, because of the help of soma. This leads me to how am I going to make sure that I constantly question the world around me. I will always stick to my own opinions and feelings. I won’t let something affect me the way people are affected in the book.

I will always focus on the good morals in life and always try to make my own life better. For example I will never let someone or social media change my views on religion, political views, or how I feel about myself. I do not believe there are many sources to trust on the internet. I trust my family and the friends around me.

In Hamlet and The Lion King there were many similarities. The main characters are sons of the rulers with uncles that want to rule the kingdom, both rulers were murdered, both sons left and then came back to do the right thing. The differences in Hamlet and The Lion King are that simba’s mother never remarried like Gertrude does in Hamlet, one is about people, the other is a children’s animated movie, Scar gets killed by his own people at the end, Claudius gets killed by hamlet and then Hamlet dies too when Simba lives to rule his kingdom.

One thing that surprised me is that The Lion King is very similar to Hamlet. After reading Hamlet and then watching The Lion King you see many similarities. Hamlet is dark and The Lion King is a better version made for children. I never realized these connections in Hamlet and The Lion King before.

In the Canterbury Tales most of the religious peolpe have greed. One for example is the Pardoner that sold fake relics to poor people so he could keep the money for himself. Another example is the the Nun who did not share her left over food with the peoplein need but gave the food to her dogs. The Nun also bought nice jewelry for her self instead of bying the poor nice things. Last example is the Friar who did nasty things to young girl.

I believe that greed is the still the root of evil because as soon as people get rich they are still wanting more money and will do prety much anything to get more money. Another reason why I believe greed is the root of evil is because people will kill other people and will kill spouse for life insurance.

In both Beowulf and Field of Dreams both charaters followed their instincts. People doubted them on their jouney but they continued anyways. Field of Dreams the setting is in Brooklyn NY and Beowulf takes place in Denmark. In Beowulf most of thier journey took place on foot and on boat. In Field of Dreams their journey took place in a car.

A tragic flaw in Field of Dreams is that they almost loose their farm because of the baseball field. In Beowulf his tragic flaw is that he dies at the end.