Question

What is the issue Twain is satirizing?

What techniques does Twain use to create his satire?

What is the issue McCullough is satirizing?

What techniques does McCullough use to create his satire?

How effectively do the techniques used communicate Twain’s position?

How effectively do the techniques used communicate McCullough’s position?

How are the messages communicated by Twain and McCullough similar?

Which message could you relate to more? Explain why in a minimum of three sentences.

Answer 1

Twains: Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth--something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends--and I say it beseechingly, urgingly--

Answer 2

McCulloughs: http://theswellesleyreport.com/2012/06/wellesley-high-grads-told-youre-not-special/