How would you describe Dumas’s use of humor? Find three examples that you especially like, and explain how the humor helps the author achieve her goals. In what ways does Dumas’s argument represent...

How would you describe Dumas’s use of humor? Find three examples that you especially like, and explain how the humor helps the author achieve her goals. In what ways does Dumas’s argument represent satire, with the simultaneous goals of ridiculing and remedying a problematic situation? (For a discussion of the uses of humor in argumentation, see Chapter 2.)