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Humor In Jenny Allen's Essay 'The Trouble With Nature'

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In Jenny Allen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to entertain and show that when you go into nature, nature comes to you. Jenny Allen uses humor throughout the article to entertain the sophisticated workers of New York by using irony and quick laughable remarks. "manicured-looking nails, like the too-long nails of the bank teller who counted out your cash yesterday" (Allen 11). This is ironic and kind of funny actually because she compares the racoon to a bank teller, but in cartoons they are usually depicted as the robbers with their black colored fur around their eyes. Also, she uses a lot of poop and vomit jokes. "Between the mice doo-doo and the ants..." (Allen 10). She uses these comments to appeal to the
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