Douglas Adams Use Of Strange Humor

Webster's online dictionary defines humor as "a quality that appeals to a sense of the ludicrous (laughable and/or ridiculous) or incongruous." Incongruity is the very essence of irony. More specifically, irony is "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result." Flannery O'Connor's works are masterpieces in the art of literary irony, the laughable and ridiculous. The incongruous situations, ridiculous characters, and feelings of superiority that O'Connor creates make up her shocking and extremely effective, if not disturbing, humor. I say "disturbing" because O'Connor's humor, along with humor in general, most often contains the tragic. O'Connor has been quoted as saying, "The comic and the terrible

Many believe his play to humor and writing betrays Indian “people by presenting them as clichés to be laughed" person’s name says hey "while other persona says he Avoiding to educate white readers and re instill cultural pride in Indian readers he actively works against such goals with his humor" . However I believe Sherman Alexie humor is central to

He uses to induce humor to disrupt the tension on what is happening during the scene. An example of this is when Owen is raised up in the air when he is younger. He hates it as he would always say “CUT IT OUT! I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE” (5). This is ironic since he wants Johnny to lift him up to practice the dunk. What is more ironic that he is lifted up to die. Owen is boost up in the air with a grenade in his hand so that the blast does not kill the Vietnamese children. John Irving is very satire when he is writing this book, having a kid hating being up in the air later dying up in the air to save those children from the blast. This is ingenious of John Irving since it disrupts the reader to think that Owen is actually God’s instrument since ever Owen Meany was little he is practicing his very purpose. Another prime example of irony is the character of Reverend Merrill. He is suppose to be a practice of Christ yet he doesn’t see the miracle that Owen Meany is. Reverend Merrill witnesses the events of Owens life and death, the baseball that he found in his desk. After theses events he still does believe that Owen Meany is a Christ figure but when Johnny Wheelwright comes up with a prank, he instant believes, and his faith is restored. This is very ironic since a mere prank made Reverend Merrill believe it was real while Owen’s miraculous miracles meant nothing to him.

"The Faithful Wife" by Barbara L. Greenberg is a fascinating, satirical account of what the speaker would do if she were unfaithful to her husband. Upon the first reading of this poem, I thought the woman in this poem was saying that her husband was irreplaceable and because of that she would never be unfaithful. Also I thought that if she did betray him, she would choose someone totally different from him, which somehow wouldn't dishonor this great man. However, with repeated reading, my opinion changed. Greenberg did an incredible job of revealing the truth of the situation. She used verbal irony to explain how the wife in the poem is actually revealing the relationship

Personally, I would rate the film, John Adams: Independence an M for moderately historically accurate because I felt that overall the film captured the true essence of the time, however left out a few significant events that had actually occured when our Founding Fathers were first striving for independence, giving the audience an uncomplete perspective. One way that I felt that the film was able to stay true to the authenticity of that time was in the manner the unity of the 13 colonies, or lack thereof, were manifested. In both the film and the article, I got the sense that the 13 colonies viewed themselves and the other states as individual groups of people: Virginians, New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians,

In the scholarly essay, “The Approximate Size of His Favorite Humor: Sherman Alexie’s Comic Connections and Disconnections in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” the author Joseph L. Coulombe, writes about the humor used in Sherman Alexie’s short stories. Coulombe argues that in Sherman Alexie’s stories that humor is essential for character development and the creation of bonds between these characters.

Adams’ son is on his second voyage to France with his father. In her letter, Adams is writing from home to her son addressing his known reluctance of the trip. Adams endeavors to give reasons and her opinion on why traveling on important.

Sherman Alexie says that being funny breaks down the barriers between people. In his short stories, “This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto and Fistfight in Heaven”, Alexie has different characters who tells jokes. Many of the jokes are funny but can lead to many problems is said at an inappropriate time and place. The two characters are already an outsider as Indians, so they would have to watch what they say and do to not offend anyone near.

In a formal letter to her son, John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams emanates her reasoning and thought process for sending him on his second trip to France. As her son travels with her husband, John Adams, an American diplomat, she notes that there is much for him to absorb. She implies that he will gain more knowledge as he listens to the citizens of France speak the language. He will also learn how to interact with people by observing his father’s actions.

John Adams, the second president of the United States, was very involved in foreign affairs and was a diplomat to France. He was very passionate about politics and devoted much of his time to settling foreign policies. In this speech, Adam speaks to the people of America more specifically, Adam is also speaking to the people who are wary of the idea that a group of selected people will be controlling the country and the laws. Adam starts off his speech praising how far the country has gotten. He strays away from the formal speech format that George Washington used is his speech. He basically sets himself up as a person who is friendly and takes his role as preserving American freedom seriously. The tone starts off pleased and appreciative.

Without doubt, Edgar Allan Poe’s story is one of the author’s masterpiece. The story is an exhibit of artistic genius with various literary features well incorporated. Among them, irony, defined as, “A figure of speech which is a contradiction or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs”, is the most evident. Allan Poe demonstrates the use of various types of irony throughout the play, which he uses to pass the intended message to the audience.

In Jenny Allen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to entertain the reader and inform them, and let them know that in nature no matter what you try to dodge and ignore there is always going to be something else. This is because nature goes as it pleases and there really is no boudaries or rules that it has to go by.

Literary Term #1: Verbal Irony Verbal Irony: When a character says something, but really means another thing. Example: “Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence everyday”(30)?

John Adams is portrayed in the John Adams miniseries as a man with a strong moral compass, someone who prioritizes rights and trusts national institutions to enforce them. Although overshadowed by the more passionate revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson with “his aura and his glamour,” he is driven by a sense of moral duty and acts as a stable backbone to the revolutionary cause.1 This obligation to the institutions that defend human rights shapes the tone of his closing remarks in John Adams, where Adams emphasizes the importance of fact and the crucial role it plays in the judicial system. Despite the feelings of animosity that members of the jury may harbor for his clients, the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, he

The height of the ironic humor is in the narration of the situation, where the astrologer was trapped before the stranger, who was committed to find the whereabouts about his enemy and take revenge on him. When the stranger questions about his present destination, there was conflict in the astrologer’s mind but instantly the astrologer uses his presence of mind and convinces the stranger, which is revealed in a more detached manner as: “When shall I get at him?” he asked, clenching his first. ‘In the next world ‘answered the astrologer,” ……..You will never see anymore of him’ (7