Excerpts from roughing it:

Explain how Twain uses "tragedy" to achieve humor, whether through making fun of himself or others’ poor circumstances, using evidence from the text.

Roughing It is a semi-autobiography that was written in 1872. He uses the misfortune of others to achieve humor and makes fun of himself several times in the story. He does this in a way that it makes you laugh even though the circumstances are about death or getting hurt.

One of the ways he uses humor is when he is looking to fill up the newspaper with a story. There is nothing going on in town and he was writing about Hay wagons. He still had to fill up two spaces and someone killed a man.

Two excerpts that demonstrated how he used this as humor is;

Presently, when things began to look dismal again, a desperado killed a man in a saloon and joy returned once more. I never was so glad over any mere trifle before in my life.
“Sir, you are a stranger to me, but you have done me a kindness this day which I can never forget. If whole years of gratitude can be to you any slight compensation, they shall be yours. I was in trouble and you have relieved me nobly and at a time when all seemed dark and drear. Count me your friend from this time forth, for I am not a man to forget a favor.”

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Excerpts from roughing it: Explain how Twain uses "tragedy" to achieve humor, whether through making fun of himself or others’ poor circumstances, using evidence from the text.

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Excerpts from roughing it:

Explain how Twain uses "tragedy" to achieve humor, whether through making fun of himself or others’ poor circumstances, using evidence from the text.