My book is The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren
Weisberger. In my opinion the book uses satire humour and a little bit of
farce. As most people know from the movie Andrea Sachs works for the most
famous magazine editor in the world and is the most high maintenance magazine
editor in the world. She makes ridiculous requests and demands to her staff
including Andrea with little information on what she wants. The farce parts of
the book are parts where for example Andrea has gone all the way across New
York to find a shop that Miranda (the editor) wants something from, only to
come back and find that she already had what she wants and now Miranda wants
something completely different. The wild goose chases are very farce with lots
of misunderstandings and miss-timings. A funny farce moment was when the whole
magazine office thought that Miranda was not coming in until the afternoon and
everybody was completely relaxed, suddenly the call came that Miranda was in
the elevator and on her way up, the whole office went crazy cleaning up,
changing flats for high heels and everybody ran to their work places and
practically hid. Miranda is greatly feared; she could make or break your career
in a second.
On the
Satire side of things Andrea is very non-fashionable, and makes fun of those
who care so much about fashion. She is the complete opposite of what type of
assistant Miranda would usually go for. Miranda rarely says please or thank you
or even a simple hello and this aggravates Andrea, she likes to be very
sarcastic around Miranda to see if she would get thank you. For example Miranda
said to Andrea her famous catch phrase ̍That is all
̍instead of thank you and Andrea said not so under her breath ̍Your
Welcome! ̍Which Miranda was not at all
pleased with and gave Andrea a stern talking to. From then on Andrea made sure
that Miranda did not hear her sarcastic comments. This didn’t stop Andrea being
completely sarcastic about her job to her friends and family. She had been told
many times that most girls would die for her job, which she couldn’t believe and
would often reply that ̍if they did not
die for the job they would die doing the job
̍. Sleep deprivation, starvation and crazy errand running all came as
part of the package. Overall I thought it was a funny book, because some of the
things she had to do for Miranda were completely unbelievable and impossible
but she managed to do them. Andrea was
the most ridiculous person for the job yet the most perfect. It was funny and
tense and the same time, and I was always wondering what she was going to have
to go through next.
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