Satire Blog Post- Pappy the Paper and Today's Overuse of Paper/Cutting Down Trees

An example of satire, where the artist is exaggerating the use of paper in today's society. It is mocking how capitalists, and everyone in general, are cutting down multitudes of trees and leaving little behind.

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Today in society, you see people printing out projects, presentations and pictures. We are disregarding where these papers are coming from. We use them like tissues. We take one and if we mess up, we throw it away and take another! Taking one piece of paper is like one hit to a tree. Think about if we continue to hit paper, and continue to hit that tree, won't the tree fall? We act like we rely on tree and we act like we care about Mother Earth, but do we really? This is precisely what is being shown in this comic. It is showing a conversation between trees, talking about how they see their father in the newspaper the man is reading. And ironically the newspaper he is reading is talking about the rights of mother nature. If we act like we depend on trees so greatly, why is it that our forests are slowly being wiped away? Trees may not seem like a big deal, because we have so many of them. You have the amount of trees you need and the amount of paper you need now, however one day that won't be the case. The amount of paper will begin to decrease, and our variety of trees in nature will also decrease. We need to learn to moderate our paper usage, as well as moderate the amount of trees we are taking down for our scribbles. 

This piece of satire is a horatian satirical piece because the artist added in talking tress which created more of a witty feel rather than a serious/angry tone. Though this comic is talking about a serious topic, the images and the way the trees are speaking create an amusing emotion for the audience. This comic ridicules human beings on their usage of paper. Again, the talking trees play a major role in making this a horatian satirical piece. This comic could be taken as a form of farce. This is because the comic is set in an improbable situation, where the trees are speaking to each other noticing the newspaper and recognizing it as their father. I, also, see that this could be taken as a form of irony. Two forms, actually. One would be situational irony because you wouldn't expect the trees to have feelings or connections to paper. But we are missing the point that we are killing living creatures to create paper that sometimes, we waste. This occurrence is considered situational irony because we don't expect, nor do we quite understand, that trees could have "feelings" and by grinding them to a pulp, we could bring them to a close decease in the future. We can prove this to be comic of horatian satire because by reading it, you hear a witty and amused tone, even though you are speaking of a serious topic.