Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Naked Lunch

Through an awkward dinner Hollinger utilizes dull sarcasm, deep characterization, and a comical point of view to demonstrate the true intentions of an argument at dinner.

Suburban

Through a humorous interaction between neighbors Ciardi portrays stereotypical behavior through subtle sarcasm, comedy of manner, and numerous double entendres to illustrate a subjective point of view from suburban women.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

"That Awkward Moment"

Since this is an awkward moment topic I do have a story to tell. Well actually it is my cousin’s story. You see he comes from a peculiar town where the things reserved for the strangest beings in my school were the norm in his. People wearing raccoon fur were praised. There we still bea-blade battles at lunch, and their thought process was very much eccentric. Now this story describes a tale about a young fellow by the name of John. John was your average middle school student; he did his homework, played soccer, and enjoyed backyardians weekend nights. John was going about that Tuesday April 5th like it was any other day of the week. However everything changed the moment he rose from his small desk and walked his way in Ms. Peterson’s direction. “May I go to the bathroom” John said. “Of course John” Ms. Peterson would reply. So now John is on his way to the bathroom, he walked down a flight of stairs since his classroom is on the second floor, and as he turns the corner going at a brisk walking pace he runs into another kid. They both bump heads. And no that is not the awkward moment that I will climax at, but this incident is indeed awkward no doubt. John asks is she was okay, and apologizes. She answers saying that she is fine. So now John continues his way to the bathroom and is laughing a bit at what just happened. He puts his hand up to push the door of the restroom open and as he pushes the door open he sees a group of his friends just hanging in the bathroom. Now understand this is a very strange town so talking with friends for excessive periods during the day in the lavatory is normal. The kids weren’t just talking but they were also gambling and seeing his friends having fun John felt like he had no choice but to join them. He gambles for a while and ends up losing all of his lunch money. Desperate to win some money he makes a bet that is he wins he gets his money back but if he loses he has to pee on the bathroom wall. I have no idea why they would want John to urinate on the wall of the restroom but the creditability of this town was lost way earlier in the story. John ends up losing the bet. His friends all start giggling because they know that now he has to follow through with the bet. John realizing that he won’t get out of the bet now, just accepts it. He turns toward the wall, unbuckles his trousers and begins peeing on the bare wall. The stall door opens, a stall no one every goes into and the kids had completely forgot to check. The janitor walks out of the stall and looks John straight in the eye and says nothing. You might think this Is awkward but I’m afraid to tell you that this is not the most awkward moment. The 10 seconds between the janitor walking out of the stalling and looking at John to the time he stops peeing on the wall. John was in shock; he didn’t have anywhere to go but to look at the janitor and continues peeing. The urinal was on the other side of the bathroom and he couldn’t just stop peeing now that he had started. The death stare from the janitor was unbearable but yet he couldn’t look away. When John finally stopped the janitor said ten words “you know I’m going to have to clean that up”

Monday, February 6, 2012