A four-year-old boy was eating an apple in the back seat of the car, when he asked, "Daddy, why is my apple turning brown?" "Because," his dad explained, "after you ate the skin off, the meat of the apple came into contact with the air, which caused it to oxidize, thus changing the molecular structure and turning it into a different color." There was a long silence. Then the son asked softly, "Daddy, are you talking to me?"
Considering the conversation participants in this joke, the humor effect is obtained as a function of
- A)the difficulty the father was experiencing to give an answer to his son.
- B)the father saying that the apple has meat and changes color when it contacts air.
- C)a four-year-old boy understanding a scientific explanation about oxidation.
- D)the fact that the child did not know why the apple he was eating was brown.
- E)the inadequate choice of language type to converse with a child.
ENEM 2014 2ª Aplicação — Descomplica