Examining models
SOCIAL SATIRE
Satires, which poke fun at the foibles of society in order to correct them, often require writers to draw exaggerated but recognizable portraits of people and situations. That’s what Jordyn Brown attempts to do in a paper aimed at getting her friends to shut off their cell phones and pay more attention to life. If readers laugh too, that’s all to the good.
Reading the Genre
To keep readers interested, satires have to be perceptive, entertaining, and funny. Can you point to specific moments in Jordyn Brown’s “A Word from My Anti-