Dave Cooks The Turkey

What is funny? In the short story Dave Cooks The Turkey which was written by Stuart Mclean the content in the story is one of snickering laughter. Throughout the story Stuart demonstrates many situations that bring out child in the reader or listener by creating situations that we can relate too. The first situation was when Morley (Dave’s wife) joined a group of women that congregated together every second week to drink and make Christmas stuff. My mother and four-ten of her friends all get together every weekend to drink and scrapbook our lives away. The second situation that was easily apart of my holiday every year was when Morley started to complain to Dave about how much work she does throughout the year, defiantly around Christmas time. My mother start’s her “I do everything around here” speech every year around the start of November. The third and final thing that Stuart brings to his story Dace Cooks The Turkey, is when Dave thaws out the turkey and notices all the little flaws and names it. Every year it seems that my family is getting more and more insane and every year the name of the turkey that we eat gets crazier and crazier. Last year it was Fignagell and the thought of what the name of the turkey could be this year makes me shutter at how random and disturbing my family can get around the holidays.