Main Character Context

After the teacher calls the main character over for licking the light switches, the main character with the ticks, takes off their shoe. The part with the humor is when the teacher says to the main character, “You’re going to hit yourself over the head with that soe aren't you?” (Cohan, 360). This appears in a confrontational context where the teacher confront the main character. The teacher in this situation interacted with the context by adding the to the a really weird situation by adding humor in saying, “You are going to hit yourself over the head with that aren't you?”. Another example of humor I found in the story was when the main character thought their ticks faded in highschool, but was quickly knocked down by her mother who saw her highschool photos and said, “Draw …show more content…
For example, “If I don't exercise my vocal chords every three minutes, there’s a good chance I’ll never swallow again.” (Cohan, 367) This situations appears in a context where the main character was caught red handed doing something weird so they had to come up with an excuse. The humor interacts with the context by the main character trying to solve the problem they are in, but through character development by humor in this context we realize the main character is incapable of thinking of things on the fly and ultimately fails. As a result humor is created.
Our last example of humor in this story is given by the mother. It is near the beginning of our story on page 161 and reads, “Our own little corner of hell,” (Cohan, 361). This was said in the context of the main character's family moving and their mother disapproving of the new house. The humor interacts with the context because they had just moved and the humorous dialogue that the mother used interacted with the context perfectly. Again, humor was used in this context to build