Verbal Irony In The War Works Hard

While no one would think to compare children's books to the Cold War, Dr. Seuss did just that. Suess has wrote many children's book including The Butter Battle Book, Green Eggs and Ham, and The Lorax. Suess seems to have mastered the art of using an array of different craft in his books. Metaphors, irony, and parallel structure are all conveyed to make the book interesting and catch the reader's attention. Suess is excellent at using creative words such as walloping whizz-zinger, utterly sputter, and finally yooks and zooks to describe two different people to show the real meaning behind the story. Seuss’ writing may seem innocent to the eye, but behind the text there’s actually a cold meaning.

The speaker's life before war is left far below and even feels like an illusion. Like a "dream," it is gone. When the speaker “woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters”, he woke up to his worst nightmare, enemy fighters approaching the bomber. If we take a close look at lines three and four together, there is a stark contrast. Line three is very peaceful and serene, the words “dream”, “life”, and “earth” usually have positive connotations; while line four is certain death, with words like “nightmare” and “black flak”. The last line of the poem is very straightforward, and is almost prose. It tells us exactly what we need to know. When the bomber got back to the base, they cleaned the speakers remains out of the turret with a hose. If we continue the metaphor of the bomber being the mother, we can conclude that the speaker is being born into death through the womb of “the State”.

“This is true.” (O’Brien, 420) – with this simple statement which also represents a first, three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story, “How to Tell a True War Story”, the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. “Truth” – when looked up in a dictionary, we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand, and correctness, accuracy or reality on the other hand. When looking at these definitions, one can make out two groups of meaning: While sincerity and honesty are very subjective, correctness or accuracy are supposed to be objective by nature. One can be sincere and still not report the truth, due to the simple fact

Irony is not always funny; verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used to assert truth or to add depth to an author’s writing. In Erich Maria Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front, the reader experiences years of life on the front of World War I through the eyes of a young German man, Paul Bäumer, who has enlisted with his classmates at the expectation of their schoolmaster. Remarque uses irony throughout his novel, best displayed in the names of the characters, the various settings, and in the deaths of the characters.

The Veldt: A Tale of Fractured Realities Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” emphasises the ways that excessive overdependence on technology can lead to irreparable damage to familial bonds and tragic consequences. Foremost, in spite of the content and idealised name of the house, ‘Happylife Home,’ the plot of the story allows us to discover the situational irony that stresses the theme of the irreversible damage that has devastated the family. The description of the ebullient-sounding residence comes as, “They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them” (Page 1). Although the advanced technology in the house was created to provide a more easy-going lifestyle and comfort, it unintentionally destroys the happiness it promises.

Yusef Komunyakaa and Eavan Boland illustrate their personal experiences in order to emphasize how mistakes or tragic events will follow you for the rest of your life. The events that occur personally will haunt you every second of your life until you come to terms with them. The poems “Facing It” and “The Necessity of Irony” both reflect on past memories by using similar language and tone in order to realize what is truly important in life for a better future.

For many of us, war is something we’ve heard of all our lives. Whether its because you served in the military, know/known someone who's in the military or hear about it on through social media. Many writers and everyday people have been attracted to writing about war. Whether it's to”memorialize these battles”(background essay) or to “honor those who have fought”(background essay) and even some to “heal their own psychological wounds” (background essay). But some authors, they protest it. How do they do it? Well by using 3 key things: imagery, irony, and structure.

War is a horrible and devastating event that hurts many people in many ways. This something many people have to cope with. Authors are among those who have to cope with war as well. Many people cope different ways but authors cope by protesting war. To do this authors use imagery, irony, and structure.

In the novel, The Summer of My German Soldier, stereotypes play a key role on how the townspeople standardize and classify others who are different. Black, White, Asian, German, or Jewish doesn’t matter what race, you can still be stereotyped. For example, an Asian man whom was mistaken as Japanese, was stereotyped as a terrorists-like person, because of the bombing on Pearl Harbor. As a result, he and his family were ran out of town. Another example would be Anton Reiker, a German Nazi-prisoner who was stereotyped by the townspeople as a murderer. Because of Hitler and the Nazi’s cruel, and unusual actions towards certain people. Then there is Patty Bergen, a girl who proves some Jewish stereotypes correct, she is a loud mouth

Jordan Hist 102H Document Questions Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 1) Who is Paul Baumer? Describe his background and experiences prior to the war. In what ways does he represent the "typical" soldier in WWI? In what ways is he exceptional? How do his views about the war and his reasons for fighting change over time?

The Irony in these two stories is initially expressed by their titles. At the Beginning of Enemies, Jensen and Strunk are violently opposed to one another althoguh they are fighting on the same side of a brutal war. At the end of Friends, although Jensen didn’t take action to kill Strunk, he is relieved rather than aggrieved to learn of Strunk’s death, although the two are supposed to now be friends. These stories represent the war's view on friendship, and how distorted that emotion becomes. O’Brian implements irony in Enemies is to show how in war even friends can or will become enemies. They are fighting for the same side, yet make each other into enemies. The second chapter is titled ‘Friends,’ but Jensen’s deeper thoughts convey that they

After reading Volume One of Pride and Prejudice, it was quick to learn that the novel is full of verbal irony. Author, Jane Austen, uses each type of irony: situational, dramatic, and verbal, as a way to express humor, acknowledge the downfalls in society, and expose the hypocrisy of the English society. Verbal irony, in the simplest form, is saying one thing, but meaning the complete opposite. Austen specifically expresses verbal irony through Mr. Bennet. Austen is capable of applying and exerting verbal irony through Mr. Bennet because he elicits a sarcastic, cynical, yet sensible, down-to-earth attitude. One example, in specific, is Mr. Bennet’s commentary towards his wife, whom he has grown apart from in recent years. Although he is known

Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice, used her characters to incorporate multiple instances of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony into her novel in order to satirize English social life during the Regency Period. Austen’s novel primarily follows Elizabeth Bennet - an upper class and reasonable heroine, and her family. Throughout the book, Elizabeth and her family are used by Jane Austen to create opportunities for irony. Despite Pride and Prejudice containing as much irony as coal in Newcastle, each of Austen’s uses of irony also target a specific aspect of one of her characters or conflicts from the novel.

Most poets use their unique gift of writing poetry to relieve stress or just to document their emotions towards a given subject. Others use it as a key to bring about social change and voice their opinion on modern events. This is the case in Stephen Crane’s War Is Kind. The speaker in the poem uses irony as a strategy to convince the reader of the harsh reality of war.

Through satire and irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman, Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine, rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path, leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever.