Almost as Funny as Death Humor means able to be interpreted as amusing to some, but not everyone. Everyone is different, and thinks differently about everything. If something is amusing to a certain person, it will most likely not be to everyone else. There is always someone who doesn’t understand or appreciate a joke, but the person who sees it as amusing always has a reason. Whether it be that they understand the joke on a personal level or just laugh as an automatic reflex, jokes are interpreted as amusing or rude to everyone, and it all just depends on who the person is. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, humor means possessing the quality to be interpreted as amusing to some, but not necessarily everyone. Humor is used in The Book Thief
