Journal 75: Humor’s Role

   In the story, Patricia was copying Sister Rita’s voice in a funny way. So Frankie laughed at it. In a sad story, humor played a role of hope. I think humor is very important, especially in a sad story, because when the characters still jokes around and find things to laugh at, it seems like there are still hope for the situation to be better. If a story is too sad and without any humor or the author repeatedly used the same kind of humor, the story gets boring and readers don’t want to keep reading anymore. For example, the “Series or unfortunate events, ” starts off pretty interesting but the story drags on for too long and as you think of it couldn’t get worst, it some how gets even worst. So there are no hope nor humor on the way to help the readers get through the story and therefore readers stop reading it. The word catharsis means “the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.” I think this relates to having humor in the story because in a sad story the humor relieves the emotional tensions.