Journal Entry 75: Humor's Role

            I believe that humor has two roles in a sad story. One of it is to lighten up the mood and make the story more interesting. Another role is to be ironic. When the sad story is too sad and serious, the audience sometimes get bored or annoyed. So to lighten up the mood a little bit, and make the story more interesting,  author uses humor to do that. Sometimes it also shows the optimistic side of the character or people in general. The humor plays a role of hope. It shows that no matter how sad the event and the characters are, there are always hope. Hope is the thing that people can depend on even when the whole world has already turned their back on the character. It shows that people in general hopes for the best when everything is sad and bad. It also plays another role in sad stories - irony. Authors use irony to show what was not expected and make the story more interesting. If we all know what is going to happen, then why will stories be interesting anymore? It is because we have to guess, because we don't know, so we want to keep reading to see if the outcome is what we expected or not. For example, Patricia making the nurses' accents and voices and mocks the nurses is humor. It shows that although she might be dieing in any second. She still take a minute and enjoy life.