Teenagers and their Dumb Problems
Kacee, a 14 year old girl, threw her 200 dollar cell phone at the wall in frustration because her boyfriend of a week hasn’t texted her back in an hour. She then proceeded to send an IM to her friend April “I am so depressed! I’m so sad because my boyfriend isn’t texting me back, maybe he hates me Maybe I said something wrong. Oh my god I just threw my phone at the wall and now the touch screen isn’t working right. WHY IS MY LIFE SO HARD!” April proceeds to inform Kacee that she “got her back” and that they will go to the mall and discuss their very serious and complicated boy problems together.
Kacee decides to bring her 800-dollar Canon camera (which she only uses to take mirror pictures of herself to post on social networking sites) to the mall. Kacee and April take 200 pictures together at the mall making unappealing faces. She also complains about how her parents aren’t giving her more allowance, because 70 dollars a month simply isn’t enough to satisfy her needs. When Kacee purchases an ordinary ice cream cone, she MUST take a photo and post it to twitter right away, so everyone following her can know what a fabulous time she is having with her friend, eating ice cream. Not like anyone cares.
After the mall, Kacee opens up her Macbook Air and proceeds to go on a social networking site known as tumblr. She discovers that she has a new message in her inbox! What a thrill! She opens her inbox to find that it is a mean anonymous message. “ur so gross gurl I hate u, get a new face”. Kacee cries and calls April, sobbing about how sad she is, how hard her life is, and how Kacee is depressed. April is sick of Kacee’s attitude, and how spoiled she is. April says “Actually, depression is a lack of feeling, you’re not depressed, stop self diagnosing yourself.” Kacee yells at April about how bad of a friend she is, and cries alone because no one “understands her”.’
Kacee makes a blog post about all these happenings to get attention from her peers. She then drinks a sip of beer and makes yet another post about how she is “drunk” and “wasted” and how she is certainly a partier. Maybe people will like her more then. She reblogs unmoving love quotes and posts such as “I love when guys hug me from behind! <3333” Bing! She hears an alert from her phone meaning her boyfriend texted back! “Hey, I was just taking a nap, sorry I didn’t reply. Love you babe.” Everything is perfect and wonderful again, Kacee is the happiest girl ever!
The next day, Kacee goes to school and texts during every one of her classes, not taking in anything the teacher is saying. She gets an F on her test and complains about how the work is too hard. Another day of wasting her 12,000-dollar tuition! After school she spends 20 minutes taking a bunch of pictures with her friends on her Macbook, and uploads them on facebook, with lyrics from love songs as captions. Trying to be deep and inspirational. After all this Kacee pays 100 dollars just to get her nails painted with little Hello Kitty drawings on it. What an efficient and profitable way to spend your money!
Did anyone mention how hipster and fashionable Kacee happens to be? She wears crop tops and short shorts from well known brand names, but yells when people call her a “slut”. She also makes sure to have clownish multicolored feathers in her hair. On her feet she sports 50-dollar vans shoes. So original and hip! Kacee should win a trophy, even.
The next week, her boyfriend of 2 weeks breaks up with her via facebook IM. He says that they don’t have that “spark” anymore. Kacee cries for DAYS, telling her friends how she has no reason or will to live anymore. “This was the most serious and wonderful relationship I’ve had. I don’t know how I’m going to live without him anymore, why does God have to do this to me? Why is my life so hard?” Maybe someday Kacee will contemplate her life and realize how stupid she is.
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I liked her satire because she really made fun of the situation and she satirized it well. It made me laugh because it is over exaggerated at some parts but it also made me think how people really do exaggerate everything like in the story and things like this can really happen. It's a satire because she poked fun at a specific situation and she over exaggerated it but you can relate the story to people in real life to.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this satire because it poked a lot of fun about teenagers today and how they take advantage of the many things they have. Also, it satirizes teenaged girls who act extremely stupid and make a huge deal out of things in order to receive attention. This made it a satire because of it's over exaggeration of the way teens act nowadays.
ReplyDeleteHaha good job. it was funny. :D You made your point clear and satirized it well!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your satire because you definitely make fun about how teens act today. They are focused on what people think about them and what they have. Just how your characters fuss about every little thing, this makes fun about how some people take their problems and turn it into something serious. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your satire because it was extremely humorous. You really got your point across. You portrayed in detail the life of a superficial teenage girl. This is a great satire!
ReplyDeleteI liked this satire because it makes fun of the ridiculous things teens do now days and how technology is how we talk and relate to our boyfriends. I also like how it makes fun of the trends now days. Great satire!
ReplyDeleteI liked this satire because it showed perfectly how most teenage girls act these days. They can be ridiculous and overemphasize all of their problems, even though their lives really aren't that bad. Good job!
ReplyDeleteThis was super funny! You did an awesome job satirizing "problems" and really making it clear how ridiculous they are.
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