SCP+CarolC

**Final Reflection** -Please complete the following on your Satirical Comic Project Page (SCP). -Post at the top of the page.

1. Briefly state what you are satirizing in your Satirical Comic Project: I satirized the idea of Lookism, which states that the standard of happiness depends on an individual's external appearance. 2. Quote or explain how you used at least five of the seven following literary devices in your Satirical Comic Project: Allusion: "Even Aphrodite will fall in love with him!"

Hyperbole (exaggeration): 1) He married **thousand** wives for he was too handsome to be one woman's husband. 2) Wife number 59

Oxymoron: 1) "I'm clearly confused! Where is the..." 2) Viciously nice

Irony (sarcasm) 1) Religious figures **compassionately** throwing garlic and screaming for savior are not actions that are natural. They would treat a demon in this fashion, not a human. 2) Woman says, in the beginning, that vomiting will help her to be more beautiful. This is ironical, because not eating will not make a woman more beautiful. 3) Saying that Resol looks attractive after his surgery is ironical because, judging from the illustration, he is still ugly. 4) In the end, Resol Beast states his fatal problems, which he judges to be nothing important. It is very ironical to state all the fatal body disorders and say that it's nothing. 5) After he says that his problems are trivial, he commits suicide, which implies that he really wasn't having the best moment of his life.

Parody

Understatement 1) Designer's clothes are not "slightly expensive." In fact, they are VERY expensive 2) Judging from the length of his receipt, he evidently did not buy "a little more than usual."

Juxtaposition

3. Reflection What have you learned from your study of satire, including Candide and the Satirical Comic Project? I learned that the use of literary devices not only conveys the idea more clearly, but it also allows the reader to be engaged in the reading. Reader can actually judge some quotes of the novel/comic, and thus more interesting.

Satirical Comic Project Proposal  By. Carol C. English Block C December 1st, 2009  Directions: Complete the following questions – short answers are acceptable. Please get approval from Mr. Stephens before beginning your project.

I’m planning to satirize Lookism: standard of living based on beauty. It states how a person with better appearance will live a richer and happier life compared to a person with appearances that does not meet the standard of beauty.
 * What do you plan to satirize (idea, organization, person, etc.)?**

The protagonist of the story is a boy who has a face that depicts a devil. He is convicted of crime merely because of his unorthodox appearance, but his life is not entirely miserable because he always goes to community service center to help poor people. However, one day he could not stand the facial discrimination in the service center and commits plastic surgeries. In the end, he has the best look, but lacks the happiness of life. He ends up neither honest nor obliging, and therefore he is unhappy.
 * What is the conﬂict in your story?**

· A boy with a face that depicts a devil is born.
 * Brieﬂy outline the plot events (bullet points okay)…**

· He is abandoned for that reason.

· Because no one is near him, he studies, thinks, plays, and eats individually. However, he is happy on his own: he does not know why interacting with people will lead human to happiness.

· Then one day he goes to community service center. He enjoys a lot, but when a woman came in, he was shocked. She was very rude to him, and therefore he decides to do a plastic surgery.

· After years of pain, he is the best-looking man in the town, even in the country to an extent. Everybody likes him, and thus he has no time to visit community service center. He also “loses himself,” because he couldn’t frankly tell the world that he got a plastic surgery. Then he grows dishonest, and doesn’t even notice how he is only planning to be popular.

· In the later days of his life, he notices how he misses those times when he was able to be honest, and obliging man.

· He commits suicide in the end because he can’t stand the sorrow, and reminiscence of his old times.

1. Loser Beast (the boy with devil face) 2. Winner Beast (the same aforementioned boy *It’s the name after plastic surgery) 3. Ahem Rude (woman, who insults Loser) 4. Henry H. Holy (the doctor who is going to carry the plastic surgery) 5. Other people for gatherings and people in community service
 * Who are the characters? (a limited number is a good idea)**

//__Allusion__// “Dear prince of beauty, I bet Aphrodite will cry of grief at the sight of your face! You’re too beautiful, and Helios will kill you for your face, that shines brighter than the sun!”
 * State how you will use the following devices (use at least ﬁve of the seven listed):**

//__Hyperbole (exaggeration):__// When he becomes a beautiful man, other people’s reaction will be exaggerated: bowing, dusting floors, trembling to pick his hair etc. Also, he will say, “Sorry, I’m very busy.. I’m doing thousand million different jobs right now,” to Ahem Rude.

__//Oxymoron//__: Some point in the story he will say “I’m clearly confused! This world full of false ideas, false reaction! No integrity!”

__//Irony (sarcasm)//__ The last words of him: “Indeed… I’m having the best moments of my life.” Then he will shoot himself.

//__Parody__//

//__Understatement__ "Slightly more than usual." //

__//Juxtaposition//__ “It’s approximately equal to the price of happiness. Dude, you will look awfully nice after one year.”