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I think the presentation was funny, because usually that war is something sad, and Mr. Enright telling us humorous things make it seem better. You could tell he was a strong person b/c he didnt get emotional about anything. Him being funny didn't make everyone fall asleep, and I think if all teachers were funny like him, then it would make us as students more interested in learning
It was not surprising how Mr. Enright morphed certain war experiances into jokes. While it may be surprising to many people that he would joke about the war and that may make some uncomfortable, it makes sense for him to do so because war is a traumatic event and surviving it leaves one with many memories that are hard to cope with. Laughing and making humor out of things are one of the best coping methods Humans have and so when Mr. Enright has to talk about some of the events and things that he endured and survived, it may sometimes make it easier for him to cope by making humor out of it, especially because it did seem at times when he paused and his breathing was somewhat happy that talking about some of these events is still hard for him. As he said though, talking about the war to adolescents to him is a way of emotional cleasing and so laughing is just one of those coping mechainisms that makes it easier.
I don't think the presentation was funny, even though it did contain some comic relief in the form of things the audience had never heard of before. For example, when he told everyone to shut their ears and proceeded to tell the pimple story (which I don't care to repeat), everyone laughed because of the oddness of it, but it really was not funny at all.
I really enjoyed Mr. Enrights presentation. It reminded me alot about "The Things They Carried" too by the way the sotries were told. They all had something that grabed your attention and then made you think about it after.They all also fed into one another just like the book does. All of his stories really amazed me and I was glad I got to go.
I liked how Mr. Enright included jokes into his presentation. If he had just been serious through out the whole presentation i think he would of lost focus of the audience. Also, the audience was looking to hear sad stories and when he switched around the mood it became enjoyable. Another reason i think this is because, war was such a trumatic experience that its hard to ever be serious at times to including a joke maybe helps him cope with it.
i thought that people laughed at the things that mr. enright ment as jokes.
COLLEEN CHEN!
I think Mr. Enright was kindd off tryinggg to make us laugh- with all of the very depressive and sad things us students have learned about war this year, his presentation seemed to grab our attention ebcuase it was totally different than what a textbook states. His light-hearted jokes lightened the dark/sad mood of 'war' and allowed us to understand the other side of it.
Corey Polevoi
There were a few things that I thought were weird that people laughed at during Mr.Enright's presentation. Since i've had Mr.Enright before, I know that that is his personality. I was surpirsed how easily he was able to turn he was able to turn something so sad into humor, wihtout showing any emotion. The presentation was very good, and i'm glad we were able tp see it.
I thought that there were some funny parts to the speech, and I noticed that Mr. Enright doesn't hold back on his thoughts. The humor wasn't innocent, it was real and brutal, and Mr. Enright wanted to put in comic relief to mask the sadness. The speech wasn't all laughs though, and I got a taste of how horrible war can be.
I think Mr. Enright intended for us to laugh at things he said during the presentation. When he told us the truth and the scariness of war in a joking way, it helped everyone to stay interested and want to learn more about his war experiences.
I wasn't uncomfortable with any of the things covered, i've heard many war stories before. And thinking it odd to make jokes of such extreme situations is not at all astounding, it's human nature to do so, when one doesn't know how to react, they will react in sometimes odd ways. The most popular and easy way is to "laugh it off' make a joke off it, others will always follow.
Jason Mandel
I don't think that Mr. Enright was trying to be funny with his jokes, I think that he was trying to show that dark humor was the closest thing to "funny" when they were in the war. He wants to show that soldiers had to take death lightly in order to remain sane throughout the war; they would deal with the pain of the death of others after they came home.
Brian Hodes period 2
I would like to disagree with Lina's comment. Mr. Enright's humour was not to entertain us. He used it as a way to describe the vivid images and emotions that he experienced while serving overseas. He was not doing a stand up routine by any means. Rather, he was coping with the past by telling his story the way he experienced it. There might have been some humour. As we all know, Vietnam platoons were made of teenangers.
I enjoyed Mr. Enright's use of jokes during his presentation. Had he not had them and just talked about the war the entire time, then we would have been bored and the story would have been a lot more sad. The kids that fell asleep also made it interesting because of Mr. Enright's ability to make people seem very small.
I think Mr. Enright used certain words not to be funny, but rather to keep his audience focused and to provide some link between him and his audience.
I think his style of humor was different yet interesting. He is different because he is a war vet. that still probably deals with some of the trauma of the war yet it's strange for him to turn them into jokes or create some humor out of it. It was a little more comfortable that you got to laugh at some topics dealing with the war because it's hard to talk about topics such as war and all the the things dealing with war. I think the jokes made the presentation more comfortable and easier to take in.
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