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“Dragon, Dragon” Critical Review John Gardner,the author of “Dragon, Dragon” makes his story humorous.The characters make it funny.The characters are funny because some of the characters do good tricks to make it funny. Gardner also uses modern day technology in medieval times. Also the setting to make the story humorous. Although he uses humor he also sets out a good theme for the passage. When occurs in the story one of the characters,setting or technology shows up. The characters make it funny by doing tricks and other things. “Like the Dragon in the story switched peoples address numbers around so people climbed in bed with their neighbors.”pg 207 The setting and technology also make it funny. The setting is in medieval

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