The author Tina Fey in her excerpt Bossypants, uses comic irony, situational irony, and the incongruity theory of humor to reveal that negative experiences can result in positive outcomes.
Throughout the story, comic irony was most evident in the people’s dialects. For instance when Tina Fey refers to the people that ask her about her scar just because “ it’s so beautiful” as “disgusting.” Usually when somebody sympathizes with you and calls a mark on your body beautiful you are grateful, because they were able to see beyond your somewhat tragic experience that left you with that mark, and that mark didn't make you seem any less beautiful in their eyes. When people tell her that her scar is pretty, she finds them disgusting and using her to get closer, yet that is not the only humor that provides those details situational irony does.
The situational irony is showcased mostly through the reactions that people have when meeting her for the first time. For example when Ricky talked about the black guy, “ Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?” We readers are amazed because we did not see the story turning into racism. We are also surprised that younger aged people actually have the brain to think about something like that. Just …show more content…
For example when Tina Fey astonishes us and says, “ During the spring semester of kindergarten, I was slashed in the face by a stranger in the alley behind my house.” We as readers are then surprised because we didn't expect that the story was going to turn into her talking about a scar she got when she was only in kindergarten. We are also astonished because only a kid in kindergarten is slashed in the face in an alley, as if it is some sort of gang fight. The second we thought that this was going to be a life-story about Tina Fey, she astounded us and turns the story around and explains a scar that she got in an un-predicted
Throughout the story, comic irony was most evident in the people’s dialects. For instance when Tina Fey refers to the people that ask her about her scar just because “ it’s so beautiful” as “disgusting.” Usually when somebody sympathizes with you and calls a mark on your body beautiful you are grateful, because they were able to see beyond your somewhat tragic experience that left you with that mark, and that mark didn't make you seem any less beautiful in their eyes. When people tell her that her scar is pretty, she finds them disgusting and using her to get closer, yet that is not the only humor that provides those details situational irony does.
The situational irony is showcased mostly through the reactions that people have when meeting her for the first time. For example when Ricky talked about the black guy, “ Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?” We readers are amazed because we did not see the story turning into racism. We are also surprised that younger aged people actually have the brain to think about something like that. Just …show more content…
For example when Tina Fey astonishes us and says, “ During the spring semester of kindergarten, I was slashed in the face by a stranger in the alley behind my house.” We as readers are then surprised because we didn't expect that the story was going to turn into her talking about a scar she got when she was only in kindergarten. We are also astonished because only a kid in kindergarten is slashed in the face in an alley, as if it is some sort of gang fight. The second we thought that this was going to be a life-story about Tina Fey, she astounded us and turns the story around and explains a scar that she got in an un-predicted