The Human Comedy

Argumentative essay on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The novel is described in the first-individual point of view by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old kid who depicts himself as "a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties” living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Albeit Christopher's condition is not expressed, the book's blurb spot alludes to Asperger disorder, high-functioning autism, or intellectual disorder called savant syndrome. In July 2009, Haddon composed on…

ELEMENTS OF HUMOR Humor is easy to recognize but hard to define. Most humor has brutal honesty at its core. Much humor is grounded in a particular context, often defined by a particular culture, though some is ageless and timeless, focusing on general human foibles and frailties. Below are the main elements that make situations and writing humorous. See if you can identify one way Vonnegut uses each technique in Slaughterhouse-Five, as well as how each element works in contemporary TV or…

While reading an argumentative article, one learns to expect stern verbosity and intellectual perplexity. An exception to this norm, Dave Barry pleasantly plays with rhetoric and satire to convey an opinion while simultaneously humoring the reader. His article, “Discover Your House,” is so saturated with jokes that at a first glance, one may feel as if his purpose was simply to make them laugh; it seems as if it provides no real objective. This, however, is his unforeseen genius. Dissecting his…

The Effectiveness of “Winter Stars” By Larry Levis The poem “Winter Stars” by Larry Levis starts out depicting a story that a boy is remembering from his child hood. Levis vividly depicts the boy’s father “breaking a man’s hand” (Levis) on a piece of farming equipment because the man named “Rubén Vásquez” (Levis) attempted to kill him with a well described knife. His father then proceeds, with no empathy, to grab some lunch and listen to some music. The boy then contemplated the meaning of life…

The best quality to have is a sense humor for assistance in numerous life situations. A small amount of comedy can take someone’s day from bad to good. Humor and bad days have always had a counteracting relationship. Even on the worst days, there are certain desires and longings surrounding humor. The reason behind this desire are obvious; humor often comes with a better mood. Humor is about fun and making new light of a situation. A bundle of research suggests that humor is vital to unity,…

Humor is the aspect of being comic or amusing.It keeps the pattern and rhythm of our very lives constantly flowing. They say humor is serious business and without it there is no life. Where there is humor contentment ,fun , joy and happiness are guaranteed. This article aims to show you that humor can be the best component of life. We were walking with my younger sister together with our niece who is four years old beside a nearby pond. The sight was breath taking- the sight of ducks in it, the…

My mom and I may look-alike, sound alike and have the same blood type but we are not alike. Instead, I am more like my dad. I grew up in a prominently male Louisiana family. I have one brother who is 7 years older than me and 6 uncles. Being the first girl cousin of a long line of boy cousins is something that has always defined me. My dad always wanted a daughter while my mom did not want any more children after my brother. When I was born, my mother and I’s similarities stopped at…

sick aside, and let the comedy take over. Billy being sick is a key factor to the story because if he wasn’t sick, then there wouldn’t be a comedy. He is the reason for Father Pancho coming in and having such erratic behavior in the story. His sickness is a social signification. Since this short story is meant to be funny, the audience’s mindset is fixated on the humorous…

Lysistrata, a play written by Aristophanes in 410 BC is a comedic battle of the sexes as the women of Athens decide to take it upon themselves to end the Peloponnesian War. Lead by the titular character Lysistrata, women from both sides of the war agree to abstain from having sexual relations with their husbands to have the men cease fighting. In the end men from both sides, in obvious and extreme sexual frustration, agree to end the war and return home with their wives. Although Lysistrata is a…

moral progress” (Almond 94). This is applied not only in our own lives, but also in literature. For instance, Sister experiences this kind of coping mechanism through comedy in Eudora Welty’s short story “Why I Live at the P.O.” In this narrative, the reader gets a sense of how family conflict causes great pain through Welty’s use of comedy…