"Suburban" Thesis

Through a humerous encounter of neighbors, John Ciardi expresses stereotypical behavior through subtle sarcasm, comedy of manner, and numerous entendres to illustrate a humerous manner of thinking for suboratory women.

" Naked Lunch" Thesis

Through the story of a reuntitng couple in "Naked Lunch" Michael Hollinger utilizes detailed imagery, satrical irony, and abusive tone in order to highlight what happens when someone in a former realtionship is clearly unhappy when the realtionship is "locked in a struggle" and there is a large amount of tension.

"That Awkward Moment"

“That Awkward Moment”

            Moments of awkwardness can be funny for people, but they can be embarrassing as well, depending on what that person is experiencing.  I usually don’t have awkward moments, but when I do, I get really embarrassed and I want to go hide in my room for the rest of my life.  I had a wonderfully embarrassing moment last year, and to make the moment even better, it happened to me during school in front of my entire class.  I was sitting in Chemistry, confused about what the teacher was talking about, like I always am, when I had a funny feeling in my nose.  I brushed it off like it was nothing, but that nothing turned into a nosebleed.  I get grossed out whenever I see blood, so this was absolutely repulsive to me.  My teacher looked at me and told me to go to the bathroom so I could clean up.  I went to the bathroom and someone was in there and asked if I was okay.  I said that I was, but inside I was thinking, “of course I’m not okay, I have blood gushing out of my nose.” After spending more than enough time cleaning the blood from my nose I decided I was all set to head back to class.  When I got back to class, my school things were moved to the other side of my desk and I wasn’t sure why they were like that.  My teacher told me that some blood had gotten on to the floor and she had to clean it up with cleaning solution.  That was the most embarrassing part of the whole event and at that moment I wanted to go and hide in a corner for the rest of my life.  People were looking at me because of what happened and I wanted to tell them to stop because things like this happen to normal human beings.  I obviously didn’t say that, so I just silently sat back down in my seat for the rest of the class.  The blood from my embarrassing moment ended up getting on my shirt and my boots, which made it worse.  People were asking me what happened, and I really didn’t want to answer any more questions about my incident.  People may not think that this was an extremely awkward moment, but I think that the fact that I had to leave class with a nosebleed is pretty awkward.  I’m not scared for life after this mishap, but if I experience another moment of awkwardness or embarrassment, I will just think of this incident and how nothing will come even close to this in awkwardness.