Funny Book Assignment

Brian Lee            

What type of Humor is your book?

The book schooled is the type of humor comedy of ideas. In this book there is a boy named Capricorn Anderson, Cap for short and he is from Garland farm. When his grandmother fell of a tree and severely injured herself, Cap’s new life began. While his grandmother Rain was in the hospital he had to live with Floramundi Donelly. At his new school he was a nobody, the guy who got bullied non-stop. He was later elected president of the 8th grade by the cool kids of the school Zach Powers and his crew. Zach tried to break him down like he did with all the former presidents. Zach played tricks like sticking dead birds in Cap’s locker and stealing his shoes while he was meditating. One day on the bus the driver passed out and everyone was in shock, except Cap he hopped into the driver’s seat and he drove the bus to the hospital. He was now the new the biggest kid in the school. This is Comedy of ideas and more specifically satire. It is satire because at the start of the book he was the biggest loser ever and no one talked to him. By the end he became a legend. This type of satire is reversal.

Did you find your book funny?

I found at times that this book was funny. I found that the parts when Cap didn’t understand some of the modern concepts quite funny because everyone these day know everything about everything modern. Since he was so isolated on the farm he didn’t even know about some of the events they had since the old times. For example Cap didn’t even know what a dance was or what happens at a dance. He was the 8^th grade president and didn’t even know what a dance was, yet he had to set up the whole school dance.