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A Mom of Humor Eccentric characters provide the basis for any humor in a novel or piece of writing. In the book My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber there are many characters that are humorous and eccentric. The mom is a character that provides much of the humor throughout the book. Reading about this woman and her ideas in this book seems to put a smile on anyone’s face. The first glimpse given of Mrs. Thurber is her opinion on how her husband should not sleep in the bed in the attic. She believed, “ The old wooden bed