The Filipino sense of humor is self-depreciating which happens to be a kind of weapon to saveone’s face. Ironically, it also mirrors our failure to genuinely address and see that there is a needto address our enduring quandaries. However, humor in literary texts is not only a stylisticsapproach but a very vital component that balances the beauty of the texts and the austerity ofreality that a story wishes to convey.
