What is Humor?

Humor is "what makes stuff funny" and has the "power to evoke laughter." You will be exploring humor in a novel of your choice.



It is very important that you make wise decisions in this project since this is one of two major projects before the end of the year and it will take you several weeks.



For your individual novel, you get to choose a novel that uses humor. Making a good choice of novel will make this easier for you. Choose a novel that will expand and challenge your humor. Do not choose a novel just because you think it is short; this often makes things more difficult. Do not try to get away without reading the novel. This is a novel project - you need to READ a novel.

Make Wise Choices!

Make Wise Choices!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Can You Keep a Secret?--Emily Jensen

The Book Can You Keep a Secret? starts off with the narrartor, Emma, thinking a whole bunch of random thoughts while she is at a meeting representing Pather Corporation, in London. When she tries to impress Glen Oil's head guy she ends up having a Fizzy cranberry-flavored drink explode his shirt and his papers, which did not make him happy. So that pretty much ruined any chances of them wanting to finialize the promotion they were doing together. After that she had her flight back home, which she had just now realized she is scared of flying. So, to help calm her down she had a few drinks before the flight; she ended up being half drunk by the time she got on the plane. To make things worse, the plane started having very bad turbulence problems, which really freaked her out. So, she ended up just blirted out all her thoughts and secrets to the gentlemen sitting next to her. She was saying things like "I've never done anything to make my parents proud of me," and "...sometimes I water her stupid spider plant with orange juice, just to serve her right..." In the end they ended up landing safely, and she felt stupid for thinking they were all going to die and she told a complete stranger all these things about her. Then that next week she was in for a real surprise. At her work their inventor of the whole company, Jack Harper, was visiting the company. To her surprise it was the same guy she had told everything to on the plane. But to summarize all this part he remembered her and he started to become interested in her but she was dating this other guy, but over that week Jack would try to get chances to talk to Emma and he would always hint towards something that she had said in the plane. The last day that he was supposed to be in town they had an intense talk in the elevator and he questioned why she was even with the other guy and they got to a small arguement and then he got off the elevator. Later that day she broke it off with her boyfriend and then Jack found out and ended up staying til the next monday so he could talk to Emma and then he asked her out on a date.

I find this book pretty humorous because, Emma is just an ordianary young adult that has all this stuff happen to her. She can't make her parents proud, she doesn't hold a stable job for very long, tells the head boss EVERYTHING, almost gets caught having sex in the work place with herboyfriend, and then like the dumps her boyfriend. And where i left off she was just getting into the car with her multimillionare date.

1 comment:

  1. This book sounds very funny! It sounds like a book that most people can relate to in some way or other. The summary was good, but the humor part of your post was too brief. I wish the last paragraph about the humor was just as detailed at the summary part.

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