Jamie Grimm's 'I Even Funnier'

“I Even Funnier” begins when a boy named Jamie Grimm wins a competition for the Planet’s Funniest Kid. He now prepares for the nationals against the funniest kids in all of America. Jamie, who is disabled after a car crash that took away his parents’ lives, lives with his aunt and her psychotic son who constantly bullies Jamie. Jamie’s uncle helps him make more material for the next part of the Planet’s Funniest Kid contest. Jamie finds out he has to help tutor his cousin Steve (his aunt’s son). He isn’t very happy about doing it but he does it anyway after his aunt convinces him. Jamie’s Uncle invites Jamie and his friends to watch Saturday Night Live where he gets inspiration for his contest.

From the text I read, I inferred that Jamie
would have to go through a lot of revising to improve his material for his contest. This is because he and his uncle tried telling jokes but they weren’t going so well. So from that, I inferred that Jamie would have to work on his jokes and become more original. There wasn’t much I could infer because not much had happened yet.

This inferring helped me understand the reading because now I could understand the difficulties of Jamie learning new material. Obviously winning a competition could have changed his life, and through inferring what would happen, I can sort of predict how his life is and I can be more sympathetic for him.