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People who wish to understand multiple views. His article questions common knowledge of the audience and if the audience picks up on what Joel Stein is trying to communicate to them, then it should stimulate further research from the audience.
I believe it could go both ways. If someone really didn’t understand the irony behind his texts then then it could maybe acutely offend the reader, but if someone had an idea of what Stein’s sarcasm was trying to portray then it could be directed toward a friendly audience that understands the irony and humor behind his dialogue. I think his main purpose is to get his irony understood by not being an audience friendly writer. He stimulates this through intimidation and sarcasm.
4. The fact that not everyone wants to read Time so maybe Stein believe that his readers will be informed by this information a different way (his way) through irony and sarcasm. This leads people to fill the gap of being out of the loop and encourages them to do further research.
. 5.By using sarcasm and irony in order to spark curiosity of the same information that otherwise would have been dry dialogue written by Time Magazine.
6. Yes. I Still believe it can go both ways, depending if the audience is used to Stein’s writing or not.
7. The danger of an essay like this is that the irony could completely go by some readers. Therefore, they would never understand and return to read Stein’s work ever again.