''Something Funny: Story Analysis''.

 

A brief biography of the author.

She was born and grew up in Galesburg, Illinois USA, when she was 10 years she began to write; in that moment she knew that she wanted to be a writer.
Her first job was a part time job at college as a writer in the local radio station; it gave her the opportunity and the experience that after she needed, she moved to Texas and wrote for NBC station. she had contact with children’s programs in radio and television it was the prelude of her children’s book career including animal and fiction stories.

The Summary of the Story

Janey and Bill was a couple, Janey was getting tired of him because he was late all the time, they decided to went to a party at an old abandoned farmhouse twenty miles away , when Bill was driving he began to tell her a weirdest dream that he had, he dreamed with a tornado and a flying saucer  with flashing lights and the people in the flying saucer did not look like anyone he had seen before  they had 3 eyes, he described them like a replacement , in his case he met someone who looks and talk exactly like him , when they arrived at the party Janey began to thought that she was tired of pretending to be somebody else and she decided to show him the truth.

 Conflict

Janey was tired of Bill because he was a bore person , she described him as a dull men.

Rising Action

  Janey met Bill  and he liked when she met him.
  Two months after Janey was getting tired of him , because he was all the time late.
  Bill invited her  a party in a abandoned farmhouse twenty miles away.
 When Bill picked her up and Janey got into the car, Bill told her about his weirdest dream.
 They were talked over his dream inside of the car at the moment that Bill was driving to got the place where the party was.

Climax

When they got to the party and he opened the door in the Janey’s side and she told him ‘’ do you want to see something funny ‘’ and she showed him a third eye in her forehead .

 Resolution

Bill was in shock because Janey showed him her third eye and he understood that she was a replacement of the original Janey, and also he understood that she was an alien and he will be replaced.

Characters

Main Characters

Bill

Physical characteristics

He was a white men, he had a black and short hair.

Psychological traits.

He was a dull men, he was only interested in flying saucers and spaceship and that sort of things. He had a strangest sense of humor.

Janey

Physical characteristics

She was a woman, and also an alien, she had a long hair, she had an extra eye in her forehead.

Psychological traits.

 She was impatient; she was in a hurry all the time  and she was tired of being with him.

Irony
The irony was that Janey was an alien and she was tired of Bill and she decided to replaced him ,but he did no know that he was the problem

My Opinion

I have to say that I liked the irony that the story had, at the beginning of the story the author showed us the importance of be comfortable with your twosome (boyfriend) in this case, but I think she had a disagreement with Bill because he was representing the same personality that she had, that’s why she wanted to leave him and she described him as a dull men.
Bill described his weirdest dream, and she knew immediately that every description that Bill gave her was true, and she was not comfortable with the situation, she preferred to told him that he was getting crazy, and the people that he dreamed were not exist. 
Finally the author gave us a lection that pretending to be somebody else brings us problems.