HOW DO AUTHORS DRAW AND TRANSFORM SOURCE MATERIAL IN SPECIFIC WORKS
In this blog entry we will analyze 2 satires, and the similarities and differences between them. Those satires are The Simpsons episode 20 of season 4 and an article written 50 years before of what is said laid the ideas for the Simpsons episode. The article is basically a really important piece that says that there were some towns that had this culture based on the tradition of the lottery that is basically box with all the names of the people in town and the one that gets thrown out of the hat would be the person that gets killed by people throwing rocks at them. The part of the name getting out of the box symbolizing a huge possibility of death was used in Sussane Collins book The Hunger Games and the part called {The reaping}, this shows how some authors use the ideas of others and modify them but keeping the same idea and use it as a base for their own, which is the case with the Simpson s episode.
Wacking day is a really important day in Springfield where all the citizens gather to hit snakes and kill them in the center of town based on the idea that their colonizer did the same thing when he first arrived to the land but it turns out it was just an excuse to whack the Irish. When it come to the setting the town in the article is much smaller that Springfield. The difference is that one kills a lot of snakes and the other one just kills one human. Of course there were people against it like Tess, the main character in the article that was the person that was going to get killed and in the Simpsons Barry White, Lisa and Bart were against it but they were not really affected. Other topics in the Simpsons are ignorance and lack of knowledge or education and in the article are tradition and ignorance. At the end they realize how wrong this traditions are. I think they are meant to satirize is how people blindly follow traditions and don’t question it they are doing a wrong thing and wants people ro reflect over the things they don’t like about their culture.
In this blog entry we will analyze 2 satires, and the similarities and differences between them. Those satires are The Simpsons episode 20 of season 4 and an article written 50 years before of what is said laid the ideas for the Simpsons episode. The article is basically a really important piece that says that there were some towns that had this culture based on the tradition of the lottery that is basically box with all the names of the people in town and the one that gets thrown out of the hat would be the person that gets killed by people throwing rocks at them. The part of the name getting out of the box symbolizing a huge possibility of death was used in Sussane Collins book The Hunger Games and the part called {The reaping}, this shows how some authors use the ideas of others and modify them but keeping the same idea and use it as a base for their own, which is the case with the Simpson s episode.
Wacking day is a really important day in Springfield where all the citizens gather to hit snakes and kill them in the center of town based on the idea that their colonizer did the same thing when he first arrived to the land but it turns out it was just an excuse to whack the Irish. When it come to the setting the town in the article is much smaller that Springfield. The difference is that one kills a lot of snakes and the other one just kills one human. Of course there were people against it like Tess, the main character in the article that was the person that was going to get killed and in the Simpsons Barry White, Lisa and Bart were against it but they were not really affected. Other topics in the Simpsons are ignorance and lack of knowledge or education and in the article are tradition and ignorance. At the end they realize how wrong this traditions are. I think they are meant to satirize is how people blindly follow traditions and don’t question it they are doing a wrong thing and wants people ro reflect over the things they don’t like about their culture.