An essay on Sherman Alexie's use of humor in his short story, "The approximate size of my favorite tumor."

Can You Laugh at Death? What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor", Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. …

…there are times you have to stop hiding and face things head-on, no matter how frightening they might be. Works Cited: Alexie, Sherman. "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor." The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. Coulombe, Joseph. "The approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic Connections and disconnections in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven". The American Indian Quarterly 1 Jan. 2002. Literature Resource Center, 2005.