Emphasis Preaching Journal
Understanding
Commentary
Have you ever heard a joke and didn't "get it"? Having to have someone explain the punch line of a joke can be embarrassing. Often episodes of the situation comedies currently on television entail misunderstanding. The common pattern is that we viewers know something that characters in the story do not know, so we can laugh at their misunderstandings. Or, one scene in Fiddler on the Roof, pictures the butcher coming to Tevye to ask for the hand of his daughter in marriage. Tevye, however, thinks that he has come to buy Tevye's cow.
