Authors use certain styles of writing to make their points/stories more pleasant for the audience to read. In a nonfiction writing, it is sometimes hard to make the book interesting, so authors tend to add more comedic ways to their writing. The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski is a non fictional book about the discoveries and inventions that men have created. The book mainly focuses on the history of man and how he developed mentally and physically to adapt to the new world. A topic such as that is not very interesting to read but the author put a comedic twist on parts of the book, which helps the reader understand and the author himself to make writing the non fictional book more entertaining . The author used certain words that give the book a comedic, in many parts he used sarcasm. On the first part of the book, it is about evolution and the growth in humans and animals physically and mentally, and their challenges they faced during the first years of survival. The development of humans occurred at a steady pace, according to …show more content…
He used uncommon words that a author would typically use when writing in a nonfiction style, which makes the reader more interested in reading the book. Sarcasm was also used in the writing to make the book more interesting, and because of this makes reading enjoyable. Another way the author used humor to provide information to the reader was giving an opinion in an unprofessional way, by doing this he made it easier for the reader to understand the information he was trying to present to the reader. The comedic style used by the author helps develop the story and make reading more enjoyable for the reader and definitely more enjoyable for the author to write, so by adding humor into books, authors will definitely catch the readers