Joe Versus Black Robe

A close study of the technique Drew Haden Taylor, the central character of “Pretty Like a White Boy”, and Joe, the central character of “Legless Joe Versus Black Robe”, respond to their encounters with problems they face almost everyday and use humor to reduce the pain their problems is causing them. Though the authors of “Pretty Like a White Boy” as well as “Legless Joe Versus Black Robe” have creative ways of crafting their work, these two writers expressed their similarities of humor usage in their characters, style and plot between their stories. Why is humour usage in novels important?

Firstly, Humor usage is effective in writing because it helps shape reader’s understanding of the reading. Secondly, humor helps writers to provide key background information, its easy for them to form a relationship and use mind-reading to communicate with their targeted audience. Thirdly, passing on positive characteristic traits.

The similarities are that both writers of these stories have resembling language usage in their work. They used more mature language that is not for …show more content…
Furthermore, “Booze affects a body in all sorts of ways. You might not eat nothing because you save all your money for a bottle, but still you get a paunchy stomach and soft face. I do anyways. The other weird effect is that when I started drinking, I began growing black whiskers on my face, enough now for a scraggly little goatee and funny long patches on my cheeks. Before I was a drinker my face was smooth as a women’s ass. My theory is that Cold Duck wine is ploy of the white man to get us Indians drinking and at the same time to get us looking more like them.” (356-357). Both the central characters of these stories display how loving, caring and protective they are for their land and people. They talked about the history of how white men fighting the Indian