Humor And Irony-Personal Narrative

Throughout my personal narrative, I tried to tell my story in a humorous and at sometimes sarcastic tone. I express the physical harm that I endure from the mere altercation between me and toys with comedy relief to take attention off of my actual pain, and instead focus on the humor of the way the pain was being inflicted. For example, in my writing I used this strategy in situations such as “As I kicked and screamed for my life from the dreadful pain that had erupted in my cheek, my babysitter slowly started to open her eyes and then shut them again as if she had hit the snooze button on my pain.” I’m clearly in a lot of gruesome pain, but in order to help the reader identify with my feelings, I use humor to disregard my pain and focus on

the flaws around me such as my babysitter’s lack of responsibility. In my personal narrative, I often used diction to express the unfortunate accidents I’d been apart of in funny comedic references while I look back on these events as my current self. This allows me to poke fun at the idea that I suffered all these injuries from toys with almost none of the animosity I might have if I were to write this story 10 years ago (assuming I could write a personal narrative as a five year old). In my narrative, I incorporated syntax by revolving all of the incidents I had with toys around one event, one night, one decision that set a domino effect leading to the topic of the story. By doing so, the origin of my narrative is much clearer than it might have been if I hadn’t used this style of syntax.