Lake Wobegon Days Analysis
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In Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor writes of a graduating class and its struggle to compromise on a class gift. The narration reflects the mindset of a teenager in high school. Keillor utilizes the devices of an over-exaggerating diction, along with his mocking tone, to characterize the student as a child, ironically in spite of him graduating, to achieve the comic effect of her writing. By choosing words that serve as overstatements Keillor demonstrates the narrator’s hysterical attitude and sense of humor in conveying negative details from the mindset of a teenage boy. When reviewing the list of other gifts given from previous graduating classes, the narrator uses negative adjectives like “ugly” and “useless”, and nouns like “embarrassment”