 What is the role of humor in the story?
Illustrated by Schoenherr The wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with ice crystals. When I say they, I mean a ten-man team of them. "Four, the ten-man language team also learned chess and table tennis. People who talk English, drink beer, like jokes and beat me at chess or table-tennis are people for my money, even if they look like tigers in trousers. It was more that we all seemed to make silly mistakes when we played them and that's fatal in chess. Of course it's a screwy situation, playing chess with something that grows its own fur coat, has yellow eyes an inch and a half long and long white whiskers.
 It showed that things amusing to some can be dangerous for others
 Dark humor was a favorite of Matt's and defined his storytelling  It showed that things amusing to some can be dangerous for others  It was a set-up to a complicated joke  Jokes are the only thing that kept the crew life