Christopher Moore, uses for his humor stereotypes of male and female behavior. Please explain. I will be looking in particular for the quality and sufficiency of your evidence and analysis.
People have stereotypes of certain races, groups or countries that are commonly believed. In Christopher Moore's novel, by using Tommy and Jody, he describes stereotypes of male and female.
Among several stereotypes of male introduced in the novel, the first and the most easily found one is 'men always think sex.' Tommy had sex with Jody while she was unconscious. Hence, Tommy dressed Jody a cheerleader outfit. His excuse was that he just tried to be friendly. Furthermore, after Tommy found out that he was circumcised, he asked Jody whether she wants to give a quick fondle or touch. However, this stereotype was not only represented by Tommy but also Jody. Jody wanted to test whether Tommy can see in dark, by Jody being naked. However, Tommy refused it, and Jody was shocked that Tommy did not response to the naked persuasion. From these examples, it is possible to see that author is using first stereotype to develop the story.
The second stereotype used in this novel is 'male tends to be childish.' In the novel, Jody spent time with a vampire who made her a vampire to find her identity. However, Tommy said "you spend the night with him" as if she had an affair. Also, while Jody was trying to warn Tommy not to eat burrito, he acted like everything was under his control. Besides, Tommy often used 'miasma' to make him look like a writer, and kept saying 'I am starving' in middle of conversation which make him look immature.
Jody, a pretty, cute and long red hair girl, also shows stereotype of female. Mainly, stereotype Jody showed is "female tends to manipulate the situation.' When Tommy accidently said Jody is just a 'foul dead thing', Jody started to sniffle just to make Tommy feel sorrier to her. However, when her act did not work well, she told herself that she should have pretended to cry and mentioned what Tommy's weakness such as 'you just let me because of the sex.' After all, when the situation was over she said "great, in control once again' which we can assume that Jody, or female tends to put whole situation under their control.
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