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This excerpt could be considered humorous because of the way in which the events are retell and because of the choice of words. their arrival is portrayed in such a way that the reader might think, it could have a deeper meaning. For example
"<span>It regarded us a while without curiosity but with caution, and after we were seen to be harmless" This might be understood as a fun way of expressing that people were all over them, to check who they were, they pay close attention to these "new people" until they were convinced they are fine. </span>
However, unlike (point A), (point B) actually
Or some other buzz words are:
Inversely
Dissimilarly
Otherwise
Unequally
Contrarily
He is afraid the others will make fun of him.<span>This is because they didn't believe Lucy, so it gave him reasoning to not want to tell them.</span>