In this essay I will be talking about the irony presented in the following stories: The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Mamon Silko, Dear Mountain Room Parents by Maria Semple, Bedtime Story by Jeffrey Whitmore, Hide and Seek by Douglas L. Haskins, and Equal Rites by Mark Plants. I show why the authors used irony in their stories instead of another literary resource, and why they used it.
In The Man to send Rain Clouds, the irony found is that they sprinkled holy water over the corpse, so that he would not be thirsty in the afterlife. They also believed that if they sprinkled his corpse with the holy water, the man’s spirit would send them rain clouds. It is ironic because they had never sprinkled past corpses with holy water but they …show more content…
The parents didn’t even care to listen to the explanations of the teacher, they were outraged to the point the teacher got fired. The author, Maria Semple, used irony to convey the discrimination against people from different cultures and to the cultures per se. The author used irony to make us aware that things like this happen all around us, and that only if we decide to learn and listen, we can …show more content…
In both stories, one character underestimates another character. In Bedtime Story the man underestimated his wife and his mistress, he didn’t think the women would be capable of planning his murder. While in Hide and Seek the kid underestimated his friends, he thought he was smarter than them by hiding inside the old refrigerator, but as we know he didn’t think his decision through.
In Equal Rites, the irony is that the priest who was going to officiate the marriage between the two men, was a woman. She had to challenge stereotypes within the church, since they’re vision is more patriarchal. It is ironic that she is judging them based on their sexual preference, since they are also challenging stereotypes, but instead of doing it within the church they are doing it within society. It is ironic that she considers only her version of challenging the stereotypes correct, because the both of them are defying stereotypes, but each in different
In The Man to send Rain Clouds, the irony found is that they sprinkled holy water over the corpse, so that he would not be thirsty in the afterlife. They also believed that if they sprinkled his corpse with the holy water, the man’s spirit would send them rain clouds. It is ironic because they had never sprinkled past corpses with holy water but they …show more content…
The parents didn’t even care to listen to the explanations of the teacher, they were outraged to the point the teacher got fired. The author, Maria Semple, used irony to convey the discrimination against people from different cultures and to the cultures per se. The author used irony to make us aware that things like this happen all around us, and that only if we decide to learn and listen, we can …show more content…
In both stories, one character underestimates another character. In Bedtime Story the man underestimated his wife and his mistress, he didn’t think the women would be capable of planning his murder. While in Hide and Seek the kid underestimated his friends, he thought he was smarter than them by hiding inside the old refrigerator, but as we know he didn’t think his decision through.
In Equal Rites, the irony is that the priest who was going to officiate the marriage between the two men, was a woman. She had to challenge stereotypes within the church, since they’re vision is more patriarchal. It is ironic that she is judging them based on their sexual preference, since they are also challenging stereotypes, but instead of doing it within the church they are doing it within society. It is ironic that she considers only her version of challenging the stereotypes correct, because the both of them are defying stereotypes, but each in different