Irony In Amanda And The Wounded Birds

“Sire, I am a Spaniard, and I bear no allegiance to France” (Benson 304). In the book, The Plague Tales by Ann Benson, the theme, sometimes deceiving can be good, develops throughout the novel. Ann Benson supports the theme with the motif of deception by making the characters lie to save themselves, making them lie to have more composure, and making them lie to seem like a better person. A motif in the novel that conveys the theme are characters lying to save themselves from getting caught.

AEC Paragraph: Situational Irony in The House on Mango Street In “The House On Mango Street”, Cisneros uses (situational) irony to show and express the environment Esperanza lives in and the people she lives around. A major irony of the story is that Esperanza’s family had decided to move into a house of their own because they wanted to feel a sense of safety and security. Mango Street is anything but safe and secure and the house is nothing the family dreamed of having. Esperanza explains, “It’s not the house we’d thought we’d get” (3).

The sniper is a great story that contains a lot of themes and great quotes to back those themes up but I have found the most clear theme in there. The theme here is “In war sacrifice is inedible”. There is lots of different kinds of irony happening within the story. There is situational irony because the sniper ends up killing the brother in a war. There was the two teams the free staters and the republicans. Through the use of the sitional irony and killings this shows that the theme in the book is that in war sacrifice is inedible.

Lamb to the Slaughter has a better sense of situational irony. The necklace had a good situational irony scenario but it didn't make sense to me. I get both the stories but it just felt like The Necklace just taught a lesson. They're both good stories, don't get me wrong. However I feel like Lamb to the Slaughter explained what situational irony was to me.

There are many mind-boggling books made throughout history, but a book written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, melted the hearts of many. . In this book, there is so much conflict between the greasers and socs culminated in violence and physical confrontations. Greasers are the people who live on the east side of Tulsa with less money than middle and higher class. Socs are the higher class that have parties while getting drunk and still being highly respected, unlike the greasers who are looked down at by almost everyone.These differences are only the beginning, and most of the hostility between the socs and greasers based on acts of revenge. The acts of revenge throughout the book, The Outsiders, reveals external conflict, internal conflict, and irony. Revenge is a huge

“Birds bring beauty into the world,” Mrs, Bundy tells a distraught Melanie Daniels. But do they? In the film,”The Birds,” directed by Albert Hitchcock, Melanie Daniels chase's lawyer Mitch Brenner to the small town of Bodega Bay, gifting him a pair of lovebirds for his sister. Melanie however, gets caught up in the rampant bird problem that plagues the town when she arrives. Hitchcock creates suspense in the movie by using the element of dramatic irony, in order to instill a sense of helplessness into the audience as they watch disaster unfold before the characters of the picture.

Its seems to me that "The Necklace" is a better example of situational irony because, in "The Necklace" the author gives the main lead character an actual punishment where the characters has to spend the rest of her life paying for her greedy mistake. In "Lamb To The Slaughter" the main character did not receive any type of punishment, at the end of the day she got away with the murder of her husband. In "The Necklace" when she was invited to the party with her husband she said "Oh nothing. Only i don't have an evening dress therefore I can't go to the affair." Even before the the actual party started Mathilde was already complaining about how she did not have the necessary clothe to wear for the party.

In chapter 24 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee satirizes Aunt Alexandra and the ladies missionary society by focusing on Mrs. Grace Merriweather, Lee characterizes her as being hypocritical. The satire is demonstrated when Mrs. Merriweather contradicts herself while scolding Sophy for not being Christian-like, when she isn’t either. “‘You are simply not being a Christian today. Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining,’” (Chunk 3). She complains of her servant’s attitude and quotes “...there’s nothing more distracting than a sulky darky,”. Meanwhile, she’s in a missionary society meeting talking poorly of the woman who helps her life function orderly. At the same time, Lee also brings in the tribe, Mrunas and brings in horation

In the novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” the irony used by Harper Lee is vital to the development of the plot and characterization of some of the main characters. It is also needed for the reader to be able to understand the theme of the book as well. Lee uses different types of irony to convey the book’s theme of innocence, of both childhood and in unfair accusations, by showing how Scout’s ignorance of the world around her and how negative connotations of a certain race can lead to the unlawful persecution of an individual.

Have you ever felt judged, excluded, scared? Have you ever stood up for someone who was judged or excluded? Elizabeth George Speare bring to the table a extravagant novel “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” that includes both scenerios in a late 1600’s setting. A elderly woman named Hannah “Witch” Turper is excluded by townspeople for being different and a quaker. A young woman named Kathryn Tyler “Kit” moves to Wethersfield Connecticut to live with her aunt and uncle. Kathryn “Kit” Tyler meets Hannah “Witch” and form a deep bond because they are both outcasts. Elizabeth George Spear's irony is illustrated through a series of harsh comments, hypocrisy, and judgement from the towns people towards Kit and Hannah "The Witch”.

You wouldn’t expect the lamb to kill the man. “ Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl is a about a women named Mary Maloney that killed her husband. Mary’s husband tells her that he is leaving her. Not knowing what to do to try to keep her husband, she gets a leg of lamb and hits her husband in the back of the head and kills him. She quickly covers her tracks and fools the police, offering them the leg of the lamb for dinner to get rid of the evidence. Therefore Roald Dahl’s use of irony throughout the story, builds up a understanding of Mary Maloney.

The power of strong female relationships allow love in a world filled with male violence, Alice Walker, in The Color Purple, implies symbolism, dramatic irony, and connotation to show how love between females help a young girl get through tough patches of her life. The entire story is told by a young girl who has faced tremendous horrors throughout her life but despite all the odds she still managed to keep her hope. Celie lives her days writing letters to god since no one else can help her get through this although she has no mother, she does have a sister but is too young to understand what Celie goes through a daily basis. No one has helped her bear this moment only god. God is the only one she’s vented her tragic moments to. Just before Celie slowly matures into a woman with enormous confidence her sister, Nettie, is taken away and she is forced to marry a cruel man who isn’t in love with Celie but is with Nettie. As she still lives her abusive life with her husband new people are introduced in the story. A person in particular is Shug. Shug is Celie's husband's mistress who she is going to have nurse. As Shug grows

In Tennessee Williams’, “The Glass Menagerie” Amanda was a woman who liked to reminisce about the past in order to escape from reality. Amanda was not wicked but intensely flawed. Her failures were centrally responsible for the adversity and exaggerated style of her character. Certainly, she had the endurance and heroism that she was able to support her children when her husband was gone. In her old life, she was once a Southern Belle with a genteel manner who lived on Blue Mountain. This was a place where Amanda’s version of the good old days back when she was young and popular. Amanda was full of charm in conversation that she managed to have seventeen gentlemen caller in a single day.

George Orwell’s allegorical novella, Animal Farm is a satirical retelling of the events leading up to the 1917 Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin. After the animals rebel against Mr. Jones and his employees, they set up a government constituted by “Animalism”, which in its raw state parallels the basic principles of socialism. In order to govern them, they create basic laws meant to unify them known as, “The Seven Commandments”, which they write on the outer wall of the barn. However, the pigs begin to disobey the commandments and change them to get away with it. None of the other animals notice due to their illiteracy, so Napoleon continuously exploits this fact to get what he wants. As a result, the farm that was meant to be utopic

Writers express their ideas and opinions on war to make people agree with them on protesting war. As they write about their perspective, other people read their writings and begin to agree with their points. These pieces of literature are processes that helps more and more people aware of what is going on, therefore begin to protest war. Certain poems help describe the topic of the story by displaying the theme and the main idea, expressing the irony, imagery, and structure of protesting war.