2. Loving Money Too Much
There was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and wanted to save
all of his money for his own future. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved
money more than just about anything.
Even, just before he died, he said to his wife; "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all
my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife." So he
asked his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money
in the casket with him.
Well, one day, he really died. Then he was stretched out in the casket. The wife was sitting
there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the
undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!" She had a box in
her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket.
After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not long after that, her
friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that money in the casket." The wife
turned to her friend and replied; "Yes, because I have promised." Then she continued; "I can't lie.
I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."
Feeling shocked, her friend said; "You mean that you have put every cent of his money in the
casket with him?" Then the wife answered; "Surely I did. I got it all together, put all the money
into my account and I just wrote him a check."
Notice on Generic structure of spoof sample
Spoof text is very similar to recount text. Both spoof and recount tell about the past event
with chronological order. Its purpose is to amuse reader with funny story. The story mostly is
ended with an unpredictable event.
The above spoof sample has generic structure as follow:
Orientation : It is the introduction of the story. By giving the orientation,
reader will recognize, for the first time, who involves in the
story.The above story talks about a wife and his husband who
loves money too much even up to his death.
Events : Several events are explored in chronological way which able
to arrange the story read nicely.Promising with her money
miser husband, Putting the box inside casket, locking and
rolling the casket are the events which build the complete
story.
Twist : This is the unpredictable event/thing/way which amuse the
reader. Readers even did not predict before that it would be.
When reading the above story, for the first, readers likely think
that the wife would put all the money instead of just a
check.