Personal Narrative: Death In A Shark

My funniest moment comes with some background information so that anyone that reads this doesn’t take it the wrong way. Since I was about sixteen years old I have said that the day I turn thirty years old, that I want to die in a shark attack. I don’t say it in a way meaning I don’t want to pursue my life, and it’s not meant in a way that I’m not happy with my life either. When I say it, I don’t really mean it, but it is my way of dealing with the things that life has dealt for me and my future. There are many, many health issues in my family from, dementia to diabetes. I’ve seen how these health problems have taken a toll on a lot of my family members. So with all that being said, if I die in a shark attack at thirty, I won’t have to deal …show more content…
My dad continued with the joke. “The dad shark said son, follow me. You see those people up there? We’re going to go up and only show a little bit of our fin and circle around them, three or four times, and come back down.” By this point, I am laughing so hard that my stomach is hurting and my eyes are tearing up. Both of my parents are asking me why I am laughing so hard and I couldn’t even put the words together. My dad continues to tell the joke. “The two sharks go back down and the son shark is so eager and he asks “What now, dad?!” the dad shark says, “we’re going to do the same thing, except were going to circle around them five or six times and show our whole fin this time.” So they go up and show their fin and circle around the people and go back down. “Now son, this time we go up and eat them” the dad shark said. On their way home the son asks his dad, “Why did we have to do all that dad? Why did we have to circle around them and go back down, circle again and then we could eat them?” The dad said, “Well son, they taste better once you scare the shit out of …show more content…
My joke talks about death in an indirect way. Gruner says that telling jokes about death shows an aggression that is considered funny. He says that if we eliminate the aggression from the joke then we do not have a joke. This is so true about my joke. It would not be funny at all if it was just a dad and son shark swimming around people. I do not believe that the aggression in the joke is meant to hurt anyone and Gruner states that in the Superiority Theory that this view of humor is not meant to actually paint a negative picture of human kind. I think that most people would have thought I had gone absolutely crazy for laughing so hard at this joke because people die in it. Gruner says that this type of humor is just a play or a game that should not be taken seriously. I think the joke also falls into the superiority theory because the sharks represent supremacy. It is not the humans that reign supreme because in the end they end up dead. The Superiority Theory backs this up because this the joke is actually poking fun at the people in the water. The jokes points out how the human race can be so stupid by continuing to stay in the water as the two sharks come around twice before they are actually eaten by the