James Thurber: The Most Humorous One Eyeed Author

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The Most Humorous One Eyed Author

James Thurber is known as one of the most influential comical writers to come from the United States. It is believed Thurber uses humor to cope with problems in his life. Thurber also uses his experiences from his own life in stories that he writes; the Night the Ghost Got in, is a perfect example of Thurber writing about his childhood. The second story The Catbird Seat is an example of Thurber coping with a problem of the world at the time. James Thurber uses humor to deal with more serious matter both in society and his personal life. Thurber was born December, 8, 1894 in. Columbus, Ohio. His father was Charles L. Thurber, a clerk and a minor politician dreamed of being a lawyer or actor. His mother, Mary Agnes
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In this case point a would be the beginning of the story, and point b being the end of the story. All of this has happened in the first paragraph and the reader is wondering how there was such a drastic change. Thurber’s writing style is able to change the perspective of how the reader reads the entire story. “The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn’t just let it keep on walking, and go to bed. Its advent caused my mother to throw a shoe through a window of the house next door and ended up with my grandfather shooting a patrolman. I am sorry, therefore, as I have said, that I ever paid any attention to the footsteps.” (Thurber I). The opening paragraph includes almost the entire plot; however, the reader is intrigued with wondering how all this could happen from a ghost that walked in a finding room. Thurber is very personal in his writing and it feels like the reader is almost talking to him. He even mentioned a previous story he had written when talking about the walnut bed that his grandfather slept

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