Nobody shot him, jerome. a pig fell on him this line of dialogue from graham greene's a shocking accident is an example of which

The exact excerpt is:"Your father was walking along a street in Naples when a pig fell on him. A shocking accident. Apparently, in the poorer quarters of Naples, they keep pigs on their balconies. This one was on the fifth floor. It had grown too fat. The balcony broke. The pig fell on your father." It is an example of humor of the situation. The short story tells about a tragicomic incident. When Jerome, the protagonist of the story grows older, tries to tell the shocking story from its ridiculous aspect.