Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is a funny, reassuring novel. The humor of the novel arises from three sources: reversals of expectations, ambiguous actions that are misperceived, and Margaret's unintentionally funny narration. Many reversals occur in the novel; for instance, the students in Margaret's sixth-grade class try to fool their teacher, Miles J. Benedict, by not writing their names on a test only to find graded tests on the appropriate desks the next class period because Benedict recognized his students' handwriting, and thus the tricksters are tricked.
When Margaret and the other girls in the PTS club do their breast increasing exercises to the chant, "We must, we must, we must increase our busts," they are hoping to impress boys by improving their appearance, but they are laughed at by Moose Freed and.....
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