The Cellar "About the Author"

The Cellar  By: Natasha Preston

So I just started reading this book called The Cellar and its pretty real and disturbing if you ask me. Its about this girl who gets kidnapped and is forced to live in this guys basement with 3 other girls that he calls is his "family". All of the girls are told to forget their old lives and even change their own names to the names of certain flowers such as; Poppy, Rose, Violet and the main character Lily. This book is about Summer's (AKA Lily) experience along with the other 3 girls as they battle to survive this man and their journey to freedom from him. 

Now that you know just a little bit about the book I would like to inform you on the author, Natasha. Natasha was born in a small town of England and is now married with 1 son. She stumbled across writing in a not so normal way. She claims that she found her passion through an app called Wattpad. She was inspired by the writing that she read on the app and decided to try and write some stories for the app. She mentions that this app gave her the "self-confidence" in herself that she had been lacking and has been writing ever since. 

Natasha has also written other books called Silence, Covert, Second Chance, and Broken Silence (sequel to Silence). When I read the descriptions to some of these books I can tell what genres she leans towards and what her writing style is. Most of her books have to deal with the aspect of horror (Covert and The Cellar) if not horror then human hardship (Silence and Second Chance). The books that contain more human hardship still contain parts of horrendous actions. If you want to find out more on Natasha Preston click on the picture below. 

http://www.teenreads.com/authors/natasha-preston

Examples of Satire

This is an example of juvenalian satire because the attitude of the writer is very attacking and bitter and shows anger in the topic throughout the cartoon. This is cartoon is hard to pin point a specific use of satire, but I am leaning towards invective satire because the cartoon doesn't necessarily use words or have an abusive speech, but it portray an abusive expression about our country. The abusiveness comes from the fact that we all no 1+1=2, but just because a higher authority person is saying it is equal to 5 and the bad, stumpy looking guy says the right answer everyone is to believe the more respected one. Now since I have explained this more I also realize that this satire might involve stereotypes as well. Not only because of the higher authority and such, but also because everyone in society is a product of there own community. This piece can be shown as society is forced to believe everything they are told from someone in a higher position, but I believe that people aren't forced they choose because that's how we were taught and automatically our brains (well the majority of our brains) go, judge and bias our opinions based on the outside before we even here a point.