Satire in Shopping

Black Friday, that one shopping day of the year, right after Thanksgiving where people can find the best deals for Christmas gifts, birthdays, or even gifts for themselves for no real purpose.  Black Friday shopping is also one day of the year where people aren't necessarily humane as many people will say, they act more like animals that cannot control themselves. Smart and intellectual people, fighting over simple toys, games, shoes, electronics, everything they can find with a sale sign above just to get that best deal.

Satire is the use of irony and sarcasm to make fun of or directing humor at something such as a person or something that a person does.  Due to many uses of Satire, Black Friday Shopping is a exaggeration of it on how these people act tyrannical and insane compared to the way a normal human would act.  I mean you go to a store such as Target to get a new television for your family room on a regular day and there will be no problems with any of the people around you or workers at the store.  Now, on Black Friday, you go to get the same television for more than one hundred dollars off and you end up coming home with a black eye and a broken nose due to a fist of the person that was competing with you for that same television, just to save that one hundred dollar bill. I don't think that it is worth going out at midnight for something that is on sale while taking three punches to the face over a new phone or game.  In this article posted on The Onion , Black Friday is a big topic that is critiqued about the human society and how crazy people can actually get from this day.  If people acted the way they do on Black Friday everyday,  I'm sure more than forty two million people would not be living today after the amount of deaths faced on the day of Black Friday in 2012.  Out of all the people that go Black Friday shopping for family and friends, the people that actually understand the exaggeration of satire in these articles that come out and are read, are the people in the world that actually stay home on that night and are not part animal.  It is one topic, a day in the world where the animals of the world come to.

This is another source that uses some satire explaining how people were going crazy over things that are not a necessity to the survival of the human being and really do not affect us as much as people think.

The form of satire, exaggeration, is also tied into the exaggeration that is used in the book that I am currently reading, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain.  Twain ties in exaggeration into the novel with Huck and  Jim's superstitions.  When Huck places the snake skin next to Jim as he was sleeping, Jim wakes up with a panic attack because of the fact that he believes he will now have bad luck.   Also, both Huck and Jim make superstitions that help them understand the world as a whole and affect the way that they travel on their journey. Twain uses satire not just in the form of exaggeration, but in ways that many people don't really see or understand as much as he may critique human actions and society as a whole.

Satire, used or not used, may and may not affect the way that a novel is understood by the reader and I feel that it is something that a comprehensible person would have to read and not take literally.  Black Friday and Huck Finn both, as a whole, explain and bring in the exaggeration of the certain idea and can sometimes bring a laugh to everyone reading or seeing it!