Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): 'Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A merchant jokes about selling rats for food, referencing various dishes.
- In plain terms
- The seller offers rats for stew, soup, or ratatouille.
- What can you take from it?
- Comedy can make light of absurd or grim situations.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does humor cope with hardship?
- What makes absurdity funny?
Another view
It trivializes poverty by treating starvation food as a joke.
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