That’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like th
em—“Eyes in My Head,” “X’s and O’s,” “Who’s Watching Hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. Untouched. How does the author use satire in this excerpt?
This excerpt is taken from "A Visit from the Goon Squad." by Jeniffer Egan. The author in the sentence That’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“Eyes in My Head,” “X’s and O’s,” “Who’s Watching Hardest” uses satire, mocking man’s inability to freely express himself. Since the man is unable to express themselves he had been writing for years which goes unheard. The character who has been not recognized is now full of anger and forgotten.
