When President Obama moved to the White House, a Five Guys staffer suggested sending him a T-shirt. “That’s cheap!” Murrell shot back. Playing coy worked, and soon Obama, trailed by TV cameras, stopped by a store. He ordered a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, fresh jalapeños, and mustard — a classic example of Five Guys’ formula that sells 2 million burgers a week and was named Zagat’s “best fast food burger” for 2010. For this reporter, evaluating the burger first-hand was problematic: I’ve been a vegetarian for more than a dozen years.
The satiric novel, Catch 22, at some times is outright hilarious, invoking laughter that requires thought. The issues throughout the book begin with frivolity and light-heartedness, but slowly become more and more serious as the novel progresses. One important character, Milo Minderbinder, invokes thoughtful laughter, but at the same time represents much deeper issues within society. Milo is introduced as a down to earth mess hall officer who concocts new recipes. He immediately provides laughter and amusement to the reader with his seemingly absurd operation that he started.
A smooth author created sentences and phrases that made strong connections with urban and domestic lifestyles. His sarcasm which he did use often brought laughs to most readers including myself. He wasn’t that common corny author who said stupid things to try to get a giggle or too. He used his intelligence and knowledge of his experiences and created sentences that meant a lot more than what they seemed. He was the streets voice as some said and he brightened us all with a little taste of urban living.
There is always a light, comedic undertone to his writing, and he chooses topics that reflect that. He writes about things like having a fundraiser lunch for the Green Party, a Liberal bake sale he attended, and using a polling website to determine his son’s future activities and what to do about his thinning hairline. His use of humor is so broad that it’s sometimes hard to tell if the subject he’s writing about actually happened, or just played out in his head like his wife accusing him of having an affair with Beyonce after receiving a spam email from her entitled “I don’t usually email you” about Beyonce’s fundraiser for President Obama. A device that Stein uses on occasion is framing. He often begins his writing with (or has in the second paragraph) a joke that he refers to in the end of his work.
“Guess I’ll finish this tomorrow; hey, I wonder where that old guy went?” He looked around as he loaded his tools into the wheelbarrow and pushed it back to the house. His father met him inside with a cold glass of lemonade; it tasted cold and sweet and was just the thing he needed, after his morning labor. “Dad,” he said, “have you ever seen the cemetery so empty as today?” “What do you mean?” His father replied. “I saw plenty of people around; it’s just as busy as always. How far did you get before the rain started, son?” “Uh, I got about half of the front and right sides cleared.” He took a long drink of the lemonade and watched his Dad laying out some lasagna noodles in the bottom of a glass casserole dish.
There were many times when Phineas did something wrong and simply talked his way out of it. When the boys skipped dinner, which was not allowed, they were confronted about it. Phineas told a lie about getting ready for the war. These lies came to him naturally, and being outgoing certainly helped being a smooth-talker. On page 18, Gene admitted his envy towards Phineas.
Scrooge and a Lonely Insect on a Leaf In Charles Dickens classic story, “A Christmas Carol”, he presents the life of Ebenezer Scrooge during the Victorian times in London. The second of the three spirits refers to Scrooge as, “An insect on a leaf proclaiming that there is to much life among his hungry brothers”(234). Just as a leaf supplies much more food than an insect needs, Scrooge also had enough food. On Christmas morning after his experience with three spirits, Scrooge calls down to a boy on his street saying, “Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there…go and buy it for me,”(240). This shows that after the last spirit visited Scrooge; he had a change of heart.
If Adam is not such a genius at bread baking, Bourdain will not hire him, but the results of Adam’s work are amazing pieces of crusty art created perfectly every day that Bourdain has ever eaten. In fact, Adam is lazy and always drunk, that makes him not capable to do anything. It makes Bourdain is so upset, but kindly gives him chances over and over again. Bourdain also uses paradox to demonstrate Adam’s fundamental truth. Bourdain uses expressive words that are really harsh and intense, such as “dirty, megalomaniacal…” indicating the horribleness of hiring someone like Adam to work in his kitchen.
Tub, who is fat, the butt of the jokes, and is slower than the rest of the group. He constantly tells people that he has a gland problem knowing that he doesn’t. When first reading this story, the reader sympathize Tub. He’s standing outside in the cold waiting on Frank and Kenny. When they finally pull up Kenny almost run over Tub and start to taunt him.
I am not the only person who gets disrespected at your establishment. A customer states, “the store on the boulevard has rude people I went in their tonight I ordered and there is a sign on the counter that states free cheesy bread if they fail to offer it I asked her for my cheesy bread she got really rude n told me no that’s false advertisement.” I think your establishment should hire more professional employees because many people are being disrespected. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I hope my suggestions were helpful, and that you will consider implementing them into your