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An Analysis Of Hugh Gallagher's Essay Parody

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Joining an online course isn’t the easiest thing in the world to complete just like completing college isn’t easy. But there are people out there that are very much ready to do both, like Hugh Gallagher the man who wrote a parody that became huge throughout the nation. With this parody Gallagher shows that he has a brilliant mind and a huge imagination. Therefor I think Gallagher is a good applicant for online courses because he is creative and different than many other college students. Gallagher wanted to be different and stand out rather than being normal and the same. In the beginning of his essay Gallagher says weird, and ridiculous things but then starts to become more dramatic when he said " I write award winning operas. I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row"(Gallagher16). This sentence is what sets up an idea in the reader's mind that this wasn't going to be any other boring essay. That this was going to be a college essay with a creative twist on it. …show more content…

But if you still do not believe that he is different than hear this, Gallagher says "I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening" (Gallagher17). Now that says creative all over it, Gallagher obviously wrote something that could never be done because Moby Dick is over 600 pages!!!! No one could read that book in a day especially 2 more like it and then refurbish an entire dining room, there is just no way. This clearly shows the point that Gallagher is trying to make, which is that he has an imagination that is above and beyond many of

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