Coyote v. ACME SOAPST

     This week in class, we began the satire/parody section of the cirriculum. Fortunately, this theme came about the same time we were learning about satire in our Armenian class. Though it is much more difficult to understand 1930 Armenian humor, both are a refreshing relief from the same old, boring narration.  In "Coyote v. ACME", a satirical piece is written in relation to the old cartoon that we all know and love, "Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner". In this story, Wile E. Coyote is sewing the ACME dynamite company for selling him faulty equipment that caused much more harm to him than it did benefit him. The story is set up as a court ruling, where Wile E. Coyote is the plantiff, and ACME is the defendant.
     The speaker of this story is the lawyer of the plaintiff, Wile E. Coyote, who is presenting the case to the court, jury, judge, and the reader. All these people would be the audience of the story. The purpose of the story is to persuade the judge and jury that ACME is at fault for all injuries that it has "caused" to the coyote. However, from teh reader's point of view, the purpose can be for Ian Frazier to display the actual corruption of the court system at the time, mocking the type of cases that were presented at the time. The subject is the court case, adn the tone is an overall sarcastic, satirical, adn falsely serious tone, which the author uses to emphasize the sarcasm.