Essays on The Onion

In the mock press release from, The Onion, the author satirizes how products are marketed to their consumers and how people are gullible enough to believe all that marketers say about their product. By describing MagnaSoles, a fake product, the author brings about humor and...

Foregrounded as the hero of the text, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s epic novel The Brothers Karamazov follows Alyosha as he attempts to reconcile his belief in God. One of the grandest dialectics in the novel is between Alyosha and his brother, Ivan, who cannot accept a God...

“Onion stops publishing satire,” reports Matt Stulberg, a writer for The Squirrel, citing The Onion‘seditor, Cole Bolton, and his newfound believe that the Onion has “done more harm than good” (“Onion”). Stulberg goes on to quote several Onion contributors as saying that they “honestly didn’t...

The article that is being analyzed is a mock press release from The Onion. The headline says it all “Bangor Police Bring in Stephen King to Help Track Demonic Car That Killed Woman.” Indubitably, this is an allusion to his bestselling novel and movie “Christine”...

The “the onion” is a satirical press release that mocks the pseudoscience used in the marketing of a foot pain-relieving product. Throughout the text, the author intends to humorize how average people are gullible for scientific-sounding reasons that do not state actual facts. The writer...