Satire is a literary term that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose people's stupidity. Satire is used to correct people's mistakes.
In "The the impotence of proofreading" by Taylor Mali, he is criticizing people that don't proofreading after their work is finished. In this whole article he makes spelling mistakes and he is trying to give people advice that he doesn't follow him self. He is modeling the importance of proofread and he definitely didn't proofread the article. This article should make the reader notice how important it is to proofreading. For example, "Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence" in this sentence he misspelled "papers" and "importance" and he also repeated the word "the". Another example is, "It was the most humidifying experience of my life," in this sentence he misspelled the word "humiliating". We can clearly see how he is trying to prove a point, to make the readers realize the importance of proofreading their work. He also mentioned that he used speller checker, but in order to use spell checker you have to know how to spell or its not useful.
"Has this ever happened to you? You work very horde on a paper for English clash And then get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=) and all because you are the word¹s liverwurst spoiler. Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence."
What he really meant was... "Has this ever happened to you? You work very hard on a paper for English class and then get a very low grade (like a D or even a D-) and all because you are the world's worst speller. Proofreading your papers is a matter of the utmost importance."
In the article "Us Quietly Slips Out of Afghanistan in Dead of Night", the author is making fun of the United States and the abandonment of Afghanistan. The author is criticizing how the United States just goes to another country and mess with the people and then leave like nothing happened. For example in this quote, "KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—In what officials said was the "only way" to move on from what has become a "sad and unpleasant" situation, all 100,000 U.S. military and intelligence personnel crept out of their barracks in the dead of night Sunday and quietly slipped out of Afghanistan.", the author is showing how selfish is the United States. The author is trying to embarrass the U.S to see if they think before thinking an action about something.
In "Advice to Youth" , the author Mark Twain is satirizing the fact that it's a waste to give advice to youth because most of the time we don't take it the advice. Yet he is giving the youth good and bad advice. For example, the author states "Never handle firearms carelessly." and "Always obey your parents, when they are present." in this advice he clearly gives, says good advice, but at the same time making it negative.
