Libb Bray Beauty Pageants

Beauty queens by Libba Bray is the story about girls in a beauty pageant trying to survive a plane crash. It's a satire about American society.The story is so funny because it takes the idea of girls in pageants and puts them in a hard life situations to see how they react.
The author uses the superiority theory to get her point across. There many times when they are trying to find things to survive most of the girls were so worried about the pageant look didn't care about necessities they needed to live. One of the girls had a tray in her forehead and because they couldn’t take it out they advised her to get bangs so she could still look good for the pageant. “‘You know what would be cute on you?’ Petra said... ‘Bangs. So 1960’s chic. You’d hardly notice the, um, the...addition.’” For comic elements author uses comic situations, hyperbole and irony. For example when Tiara find there going to be there for a while with not much food she says “Ohmigosh. No food at all...I am going to be super skinny for pageant time.”. Also there was many times and they compared what they were dealing with to happens in beauty pageants. This story is high comedy. I know this because one specific topic they talk about is racism. When Nicole comes they assume she is from the village even after she told
There is more to life than appearance and we should start appreciating those other qualities. Libba Bray is effective in teaching the truth of this story. While reading the story begin to think what makes us worry so much about how we look when there is so much more to life and so much other things that we should be interested in. After looking at the comedic elements of the text, the story is funny because it talks about real life issues in an ironic way that makes the girls in the pageant seem