Pricilla And The Bully Monk Clutter Analysis

Have you ever been effected by school bulling? In the story Pricilla and the Wimps the bully Monk Clutter had the school under his control with his gang called Klutters Kobras. They had gone around the school taking lunch money from everyone. His self centered attitude had lead him too far over his head. While picking on a boy named Melvin he had finally met his match. Not by little Melvin but by a girl named Pricilla. Yes a girl. This story is a low level comedy that uses wordplay, hyperbole and caricatures to convey the message that you should never get caught up in things that re not right because it is going to hurt you later on. In the story the author uses wordplay to create a high level and low level comedy first the types of wordplay are puns and one liners. To understand a pun which is a high comedy you have to know a bit before you understand because puns use words but have a different meaning to them. In Pricilla and the Wimps one of the puns is “Pricilla was sort of above everything, if you pardon a pun.” (page 344 Paragraph 4.) for one liners which are low

One caricature that was in Pricilla and the Wimps was “Melvin's one of the smallest guys above midget status ever seen.” (page 344 paragraph 3.) another caricature that was used in the story is “ Melvin and the Kobra are standing in Pricilla's big shadow.” (page 344 paragraph 9.) In the story Richard Peck used caricatures to show that Melvin was really small. This made me smile because he was really small but Richard Peck had made him seem smaller by says that he was just above midget status. Pricilla was portrayed as very big because the caricature that they were standing in her shadow could not have really been big enough to fully cover them and they are in a school so it would be hard to have a shadow big enough because of all the