Humor "The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn't just let it keep on walking, and go to bed." Humor is writing intended to evoke laughter. A writer can use many techniques to make his work amusing. James Thurber creates events in the story that make the reader realize how ridiculous the situation is and laugh. The main three …showed first 75 words of 698 total…

…showed last 75 words of 698 total…would not have reacted in the way that she did if the boys would have told her. Mother would not have taken the boys seriously if they would have told her that it was a ghost she would have told them to go back to bed and not to worry about it. The boys knew that there was nobody downstairs but they let everything happen because they thought that their mother was afraid of ghosts.