About This Story
"The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan" is about a boy who enters a pie eating contest. Lard Ass is an overweight kid who often gets made fun of. The people in his community call him Lard Ass Hogan because of his appearance. He enters the fairs contest to get revenge on the people around him for making fun of him. Another person in the contest is Bill Travis, the expected winner of the contest. Bill Travis is pretty cocky and is rumored for getting a lot of business after winning the contest. As the contest begins, Lard Ass effortlessly scuffs down a pie. Bill Travis quickly beings to panic and tries his best to catch up. Lard Ass was down two and then three pies. "But Lard Ass had no hope or intention of winning. He could not have continued at the pace he was currently setting if his own mother’s life had been the prize" (5). Lard Ass lifted up his head and puked over the entire town. Everyone began puking on someone else; it was like a huge chain reaction. Lard Ass certainly got his revenge.
How this connects to "The Fat Girl"
"The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan" relates to "The Fat Girl" in more ways than just having the same genre. In "Lard Ass Hogan," the boy [Lard Ass] is out for revenge on the entire town. In order to be needed revenge, the community must have affected him in a negative way. They could have hurt him physically or mentally, but either way he was unhappy. In "Fat Girl," Louise is a binge eater, which basically means that she eats a lot at one time. But she continues to doo this fron the time she is nine years old, until her senior year of college. Everyone, especially her mother, pushes her to lose weight' finally, her best friend, Carrie, helps her do it. Her mother and her husband and the entire family is so happy with her weight loss and they affect her mind so harshly. Her mother always influenced the fact that skinny equaled happy. So now that Louise is skinny, why isn't she happy? When Louise gets pregnant, she gains some weight back. She restarts these old habits of over eating and gaining weight, and the only person who still accepts her for she truly is, is her father. Both Lard Ass and Louise have had negative affects of their world, pushed by their community. One major difference is that Lard Ass did not care much about his weight; he was almost proud of it. Meanwhile, Louise was very ashamed of her weight. She knew the expectations that her mother and Robert and everyone else around her had for how she was supposed to look and what the number on the scale was supposed to say. She tried to fit their perfect body image, but it just never fit her personality. While Lard Ass Hogan embraces his weight, Louise tries to hid it, and feels ashamed.
Why this story is Contemporary |
Literary Terms |
In most contemporary stories, the main character is flawed. In "The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan," he is fat, but that is not what makes him flawed. What makes him flawed is the way he acts based off of the fact that he is fat. People make fun of him and he uses that anger to puke on the entire town and get revenge. He was a little messed up, just like the character in "The Fat Girl." He took his anger and revenge out on people when their were healthier ways to take out his anger. He could have maybe gone to the gym to the punching bag, but instead he puked on people.
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Denouement- The denouement, or the end of the story, is when Lard Ass is looking out at the crowd of puking people.
Protagonist- The protagonist, or the main character of the story is Lard Ass Hogan. Dynamic Character- Bill Travis is a dynamic character because in the beginning of the story, he was all confident and sure that he would win but then when Lard Ass began to eat pie after pie and get ahead of Bill he started panicking. Exposition- The exposition of "The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan" was when all of the pie eating contestants were being introduced. Setting- The setting of this story is a pie eating contest. This helps the plot because he has a perfect setting for revenge. |