Chapter 3

 The purpose of chapter 3 is to make fun of the caucus race, but it also shows that having caucus races are pointless. I would compare this to this image, (Pointless memes - Google Search. (n.d.). Retrieved April 05, 2016, from https://www.google.com/search?q=pointless memes)   

I would compare it to this because the caucus race basically says “pointless in front of your race, but it's behind the word “caucus”. This picture is a parody satire version of the caucus race. This image shows that even though they know the caucus race is pointless they still try it. The image shows that the person knows that pressing the button will be pointless, but they still do it. Just like when people argue over dumb things that in the end it doesn't solve anything. They know it's going to be pointless, but they still do it. In this chapter there is a form of satire called dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is where the characters know something that another person in the story does not. The animals participated in the caucus race even though they knew was pointless, but Alice doesn't know. The animals do not tell Alice that the caucus race is pointless so she participates in it with the animals. At the end of the “Caucus race” Alice realizes that caucus races are pointless. Caucus races in political events voter turnouts are 7.6% while voter turnouts in primaries are 30.3%. This information shows that caucus races are really pointless, the proof is in the numbers. Another form of satire in this chapter is Verbal Irony.

(Satire meme - Google Search. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2016, from https://www.google.com/search?q=satire meme)The image an example of verbal irony, verbal irony is basically a way of emphasizing folly (stupidity) this picture reminded me of the part in chapter 3 video when the man had all the animals running around in a circle and in order for Alice to be able to leave he said she had to also jump around in the circle with the animals and i feel that is “pointless” and “folly(stupid)” because there was no point of doing that and the entire video was “pointless”, chapter 3 video is the same as the image above because the caption says “why don't poor people just buy more money?” And i feel that this is verbal irony because it was an unnecessary comment that could may be answered by themselves and i felt it was a great example of verbal irony.