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!

Friday, December 21, 2012

Gulivers Travels Post 2 - Matt

First off, if you are reading this you are a yahoo! that's that.

Now where was I? Ok yes, in the third part of the book the man goes on Cloud Nine, er i mean a cloud city. On this cloud city he notices that people get distracted really easy and yet they don't get interested in much either. Kind of strange? Well i forgot to tell you about the slaves that go around with them and hit them with mallets. Before this people will listen or speak they must be hit with these mallets in order to make them come back to reality. While I am sure they gave the city a name in the book, i am just going to say it is Cloud Nine. In order that i don't give every thing about that part to ya, i'll move on.

The last part is the most interesting part. As with all the other parts he gets very descriptive about many things. one of them being yahoos. In this nation the most vicious, yet semi-trainable creature is the yahoo. This creature has long claws on it forefeet, long hair streaming from its head, has a ferocious howl, and will fight it's own type without much reason. Hmmmm......... What creature could this be? While during this part one of the creatures is found to be rationally thinking as compared to the more competent people governing this nation. It was found covered in the furs of other animals and preferred to support itself on its hind feet. Hey, come to find out, the creatures name was Guliver. Hmmm. Yup yahoos are human creatures but than who is the "rationally governing" creatures. Well, that's one thing you'll need to read the book to find out.

Peace