"The Diary of a Social Butterfly" Moni Mohsin
Epistolary Novel
Comedy of manners
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
letters
modern world---emails, text messages, podcasts, dairy entries, newspaper entries, clippings from magazines, telegrams---
monologic---one person's POV
Story---content---day-to-day activities 2001---2008
Setting---Elite class/ Lahore---
no beginning, no middle, ending---
humour, irony, exaggeration---pinpoint the flaws, follies, or vices---of a particular class
idea of improvement
wit, humour, satire
poke fun at the manners of a particular social class
affectation, pretention, ostentation, hypocrisy, vanity----
The Friday Times---column
static nature of her ch.
Language---Code-switching, transliteration
verisimilitude---realistic