This week in class we read a satirical story called Cayote vs. ACME. This story is about a famous cartoon character, Wile E. Cayote, who is suing the ACME company for all the injuries he has received due to using their products. The author, Ian Frazier, purposely chose to use a cartoon character in his story to show the ridiculousness of actual law suits that are taken to court everyday. Frazier's purpose of writing this story is to mock the people who sue for the most absurd reasons.
The speaker of this story is Wile E. Cayote's lawyer, and it takes place in a courtroom. His tone is sarcastic and mocking and the audience of this story are the people in the courtroom and the reader. I overall enjoyed reading this anecdote, I have never really read anything like this before.
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