Question

Read this excerpt from "A Visit from the Goon Squad." 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"—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? The author is criticizing media censorship. The author is criticizing the idea of isolationism. The author is mocking society’s overuse of technology. The author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

Answer 1

Answer:

This excerpt is taken from the Pulitzer prize winning book "A Visit from the Goon Squad" that is written by Jennifer Egan, the American author in 2011.

The correct answer is:

This author is mocking society's overuse of technology.

Explanation:

The satire keenly criticizes all the social media benefits that everyone is focusing on, like profiles and pages. These are what make a man famous these days. But the character here has never been on social media before or has had a mobile set. That makes him different, somewhat forgotten. And this is the reason of his rage that is called pure. He is to sing his songs now and he is to touch that untouched feelings that he has been hiding for so many years.