Humor

"Hunters in the Snow" is very amusing, to say the least. The story begins with verbal irony, the portly character is actually named Tub. Then, the situational irony only adds to the humor when Kenny, with permission, shoots the dog. The permission Kenny received is not realized by Tub and Frank until later in the story. I also find it odd that Tub thought, that in shooting the dog, that Kenny was aiming for him. Also, it is quite funny that no one seems to really react to Kenny being shot. All they really say is well it's your left side, so it didn't hit your appendix. Hello? The guy just got shot. Were they using BB guns? Then, the people living in the house basically say no we don't have anything, do you want to use the phone? There is no typical reaction of a character being shot. The ride to the hospital only gets better. Frank and Tub stop twice to warm up, while their friend is sitting in the back of the truck freezing, and with a wound in his stomach! Then we find out that Frank likes a fifteen year old and Tub really does not have gland issues. And then in the reunification of friendship Frank buys Tub pancakes, and then watches him veg out. Then, ultimately, they were not even heading in the right direction to the hospital! Throughout the storyline, it is more important to focus on Tub and Frank, and their metamorphosis. The author took Kenny out of the picture physically so that the change between these two characters would be the vantage point of the reader.