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"The Diary of a Social Butterfly" Moni Mohsin - Coggle Diagram
"The Diary of a Social Butterfly" Moni Mohsin
Epistolary Novel
letters
modern world---emails, text messages, podcasts, dairy entries, newspaper entries, clippings from magazines, telegrams---
Comedy of manners
wit, humour, satire
poke fun at the manners of a particular social class
affectation, pretention, ostentation, hypocrisy, vanity----
Social and Political Satire
"Humour comes from tragedy while anger is what triggers satire. With satire, you speak the truth and hold a mirror up to the society." Mohsin, 2014
Butterfly---diary entries
"slice of life"---as Butterfly sees it
Plot X
Story---content---day-to-day activities 2001---2008
no beginning, no middle, ending---
monologic---one person's POV
Setting---Elite class/ Lahore---
humour, irony, exaggeration---pinpoint the flaws, follies, or vices---of a particular class
idea of improvement
The Friday Times---column
static nature of her ch.
Language---Code-switching, transliteration
verisimilitude---realistic