Mark Twain wrote an article "Advice to Youth" in 1882. This article is very satirical because he gives bad advice to the youth. Instead of him giving us the youth of good examples or a good advice on being a better person he makes fun of us and he encourage us negatively. In his first advice he tells us that we should "always obey our parents, when they are present". I don't believe that this is a very good advice because we should always obey are parents even if they are or aren't around. What Mark Twain is doing is that he's being very satirical. He knows that he has no control over the youth. HE is telling us the wrong thing maybe if we are smart enough will know right from wrong. If kids are raised correctly with a good example parents won't need to tell them what to do. The youth now an days don't like to be told what to do. Most likely if you tell them to do the wrong thing they might just do the right thing. It's part of human nature. Mark Twain made fun of the youth but in a very decent way that wasn't cruel. In my opinion this article is not a good article for the youth to read it because they might get wrong idea. Most kids my use his advice and then use him as an excuse. But this article is a very good example of satire.
I learned today that if I am looking for the best example of satire I should watch Saturday Night Live.
In the website The Onion they have an article named Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet. In this article Americans are using satire to make fun of Al Gore's speech.
In this article Gore is being mocked by the same people he has tried to save how ironic. In this article they are using satire by comparing Al Gore to Supermans Father and his son to Superman. He's putting his son in a rocket to save him from planet earth. In the original speech Gore said that we are in danger if we don't do something about it we going to be in danger. Satire is explaning this speech to us in a very ridiculous way which makes it seem really funny.
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