Greater Humor Through Differentiation
Have you ever started reading a book, or a text, or an article, or any piece, and feel like you cannot put it away to undertake regular chores? Well, a text that elicits humor can significantly catch people’s attention and create great interests. The following two essays, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt and “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry, in fact, stimulate immense humor. They can leave readers with prolonged giggling. They are different at several points—tone, organizational style and subject matter, but their purpose and incorporation of literary elements create humor. Considering those similarities and differences, Barry’s is a more successful humor essay because it presents a more moderate tone, a more balanced and different organizational style, and it does not lean toward any of the subjects. Writers of Comparison and …show more content…
They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions. Neat people don’t care about process. They like results. Neat people are vicious with mails. They keep their receipts only for tax purposes. Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics” (Britt 243). Whether people are neat or sloppy, they all have a good side; but it seems like Britt ignores that, because she leans toward sloppy people too deeply, and that does not create any balance through her text. That also results in less humor. Barry, in contrast, generate a greater balance. He does not prefer any of the subjects, and he even makes fun of himself when he explains that his wife still sees the filthiness of the bathroom after he just cleaned it with the Standard Male Cleaning Implements—spray bottle of Windex and a wad of paper towels (249). This shows that he does not hesitate to say what he, and all men, are bad at doing. That shows sinscerety, and it also tells readers that Barry is a delighted person to be
Have you ever started reading a book, or a text, or an article, or any piece, and feel like you cannot put it away to undertake regular chores? Well, a text that elicits humor can significantly catch people’s attention and create great interests. The following two essays, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt and “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry, in fact, stimulate immense humor. They can leave readers with prolonged giggling. They are different at several points—tone, organizational style and subject matter, but their purpose and incorporation of literary elements create humor. Considering those similarities and differences, Barry’s is a more successful humor essay because it presents a more moderate tone, a more balanced and different organizational style, and it does not lean toward any of the subjects. Writers of Comparison and …show more content…
They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions. Neat people don’t care about process. They like results. Neat people are vicious with mails. They keep their receipts only for tax purposes. Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics” (Britt 243). Whether people are neat or sloppy, they all have a good side; but it seems like Britt ignores that, because she leans toward sloppy people too deeply, and that does not create any balance through her text. That also results in less humor. Barry, in contrast, generate a greater balance. He does not prefer any of the subjects, and he even makes fun of himself when he explains that his wife still sees the filthiness of the bathroom after he just cleaned it with the Standard Male Cleaning Implements—spray bottle of Windex and a wad of paper towels (249). This shows that he does not hesitate to say what he, and all men, are bad at doing. That shows sinscerety, and it also tells readers that Barry is a delighted person to be