Humor in The Bride Comes to Yellow Creek

Humor in “A Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”

Page 1: Humor may take many forms. A person may tell a humorous story to entertain an audience. Plays, movies and television shows use actors to relate humorous situations in a way that is easily related to the audience. The skills of the writers, actors and comedians directly correlate to the effectiveness of the humor presented. Generally the effect is immediate as the story progresses with small presentations of humor and possibly developing into a grand finale or punch line. These things are engineered to entertain and provide humor with the use of very superficial information that allows the audience to follow along rapidly and doesn’t require much thought or reflection. It would be difficult to carry out a gag if your audience had to take several moments to reflect and absorb the entire situation in order to see the humor in it.

The situation in literature is much different. The writer can use a great deal of reflection to chann...