- Incorporates French language/terminology.
- Located in New York.
- New York is symbolized to be a type of "melting pot" meaning mixes of cultures.
- Ellis Island in New York is where immigrants normally enter America, therefore when the person states they see many strange people, he/she could be referring to the many different types of people.
- The panda can talk and wield a gun which isn't normal.
- The joke is taken literally and doesn't have any hidden puns.
- Dialogue between human and animal.
- Emotions are given.
- Notes that pandas are from China.
- Personification is heavily prevalent. The string performs human actions such as sweating or getting frustrated.
- Really repetitive when each bar said they didn't serve strings.
- Informal language: String saying "gimme".
- Actually has a lot of different emotions.
- The string (Inanimate object) converses with humans.
- The joke "I'm a frat knot" can mean multiple things whether describing its appearance or saying "I'm afraid not".
- Shorter than the other stories.
- Robinson was identified as Friday's master; however Friday was not properly identified as a human or animal.
- There was dialogue between both characters.
- A common joke that's switched compared to the original.
- It's "Thank Friday, it's God" instead of "Thank God it's Friday".
- An allusion was used. Religion based assuming that Robinson is about to die and sees the light (God).
- Both characters weren't fully described. The only thing we know was that the lawyer was friends with a Czechoslovakian. Unsure of their genders.
- Informal language.
- All characters interacted with each other. The lawyer was friends with the Czech, the male bear ate the Czech, The lawyer talked to the Sheriff, and the Sheriff shot the female bear.
- There was dialogue between the lawyer and Sheriff.
- The lawyer focused a lot on his/her career and justice: Thinking of lawsuits and wanting the sheriff to shoot the bear that ate the friend (Bear committing a murderous act and should be punished).
- Punchline: "Would you believe a lawyer told you there was a check in the mail." Lawyer looked at as devious and conniving.
Story Similarities
- They all had informal language.
- Characters interact with each other.
- Stories consisted of dialogue.
- The characters were hardly described.
- General knowledge was needed to understand the punchline.
- Most stories were pretty fictional.
- Cultural backgrounds were given in the stories.
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