... plot or chronological succession to this story. Every page in the book can bring you to a different time or circumstance in Billy's life. Vonnegut uses extensive irony, imagery, personification, and a little singing bird throughout the book to connect these seemingly unrelated events. There is a fictitious element to this book - the idea ... baby Jesus. He tells us about how the cattle have awakened Jesus, yet he does not cry about it. He simply ignores it. Vonnegut uses dark irony in a very effective way, which not only disturbs the reader, but connects various events throughout the sto...

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In "Greenleaf" by Flannery O"Connor, there is a major contrast between the two families of the Mays and the Greenleafs. These families are entirely different in many ways. Some of these contrasts are those of ... ...

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... valued in the household. There was once a time in America when families could feel safe in their homes and communities. This time was soon to be "gone with the wind." Flannery O"Connor tells a tale of a family experiencing the changes in American culture during this time period. Her story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find illustrates how society was beginning to drastically ... ...

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... what they are unwilling to do themselves. They should go out and fight just like the young ones. The poet's use of a sarcastic tone works effectively. The soldier sees the irony in the fact that the older officers send the young soldiers to die in battle, but they themselves stay behind the lines enjoying the luxurious excesses. Through his choice of ... "speed" in the phrase "speed glum heroes up the line to death" (3) suggests that they issue orders which lead to nonessential deaths without a second thought. The irony of the poem is illustrated in the play on words in the title, "Base...

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... wars. The author gets the point across but using a certain tone that makes you feel the desperation they have. He uses irony and symbolism throughout the whole book. (pg 271-291) The final chapters of the book are full of irony because the soldiers are on their final stand and are about to fall. Themes are what make a book, and in this ... ...

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... the ironic moment when Sue, a neighbor, says of the Keller family, "I resent living next door to the Holy Family. It makes me look like a bum" (Miller 45). The irony being, of course, that the family is anything but holy. Keller tries to seem like an understanding man, sympathizing with his old partner, even though there is a more bitter ... irony in his words. "There are certain men in the world who would rather see everybody hung before they'll take the blame" (Miller 64). This from him is ... ...

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... a children's crusade" (182). Vonnegut introduces Edgar Derby to further strengthen the ills of war: I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby The irony is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands and thousands of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking ... . Separated from the actuality it [this habit of not facing problems] transforms, fantasy can be destructively overwhelming to the dreaming mind" (89). In conclusion, the Dresden raid, science fiction, fiction, irony and the characte...

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... affect of what was happening'. These apologies and words mean nothing to the victims of the Rwandan genocide, what is needed is time and reparations to rebuild a devastated country. The irony of it all is that when the world was celebrating the fifty year anniversary of the closing of the Nazis death camps the acts of genocide were happening all over ... affect of what was happening'. These apologies and words mean nothing to the victims of the Rwandan genocide, what is needed is time and reparations to rebuild a devastated country. The irony of it all is that when the world was celebra...

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... of water symbolizing the people giving Jesus a drink while he was on the cross. When Catherine dies, Henry is forced to face death. It said her body was like a statue. IRONY In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Harry is the type of man that believes he can handle anything that he doesn't have to worry about those so-called "minor- things in ... he was aware of the fact that his wife was sick. He went to phone her and was then notified by the doctor that she died of pneumonia unexpectedly. The irony of "The Old Man and the Sea- is that Santiago worked so hard to keep the marlin and all he retur...

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... the working class "scum" at the bottom who comprised the majority of society. The play is set in an imaginary town called Brumley, somewhere in the north of England. Dramatic irony is involved in the early stages of the play. It is used on two occasions, one consecutively following the other. Birling states "Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two ... the story was set just two years before the First World War, the audience would have known this, as the play was first performed in 1946. Another example of dramatic irony in the opening scene is when Birling is expressing his though...

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... him on to the beach only to find a ships captain and crew waiting there to rescue them, because he saw the smoke. The novel is packed full of symbolism and irony. Golding also communicates his message quite well. "The title refers to Beelzebub, most stinking and depraved of all the devils: it is he, and not the God of Christians, who ... basic structure of society, identity. If a person does not know who he is then he can never function properly in society. The other tool that Golding uses very well is irony. It is very ironic that the group of boys finally get rescued because they acci...

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... pathos. The "ghastly suit of grey" straight away emphasises his depression and his sorry state. Owen amplifies the image by using alliteration. Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A hymn is a song of praise, the irony is that there is nothing cheerful about his situation. It is also a simile, which creates even more sadness. The young boy sits in ... ...

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... is the aforementioned Callan, a patient of Dr. Yealland, who as already mentioned does not believe in shell shock. For me one of the main scenes with a huge moving sense of irony is where Yealland is performing his mutism treatment on Callan. Callan's existence is a miracle, yet Yealland is not content with this, he wants tofix? him like a robot and send him ... back to what Owen describes vividly in his poemMental Cases? aswading sloughs of flesh? and to thebatter of guns and flying muscles?. The irony in this scene is that Callan's mutism is his subconscious protest against all the wr...

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... fading from those who died that day, slowly like the funeral march but ironic as most of the men who died on the battle fields never had a funeral. There is irony in 'Dulce' also - the whole poem is ironic. Owen is saying it is not sweet or fitting to die in battle, to be flung in a wagon with your eyes 'writhing ... ' in your face. Owen uses the idea of irony in war in both of these poems as he saw misery, destruction, and pain and wanted people to be more aware of the cruelty of war and hopefully to stop ... ...

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... to modern warfare by stating the realities the soldiers went through. These realities are still similar to soldiers still fighting now-a-days. Owen uses many literary devices, including mood and irony, to prove that soldiers, in times of war, face many challenges. In the excerpt from the novel, The Things They Carried, O"Brian describes the items, diseases, and burdens that the ... carry water bottles and stationary, they carried dysentery and malaria also. It explains the pain and suffering they went through, and what they had to do to sustain life. Mood, irony, figurative language, an...

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... hand of the Germans. Horne does an extraordinary job of pulling the reader into the idea of the Maginot Line and in the end leaves you shaking your head. The irony is all to present, the line was a great way of preventing a German invasion yes, but at the same time it was barrier for the French who could have made significance ... collapse of the Belgian's, the breaking of the line, the evacuation of Dunkerque and the last effort by the French to organize a final stand. What is very evident is the irony that existed in the French surrender. The French were forced to surrender in the ver...

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... pathos. The "ghastly suit of grey" straight away emphasises his depression and his sorry state. Owen amplifies the image by using alliteration. Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A hymn is a song of praise, the irony is that there is nothing cheerful about his situation. It is also a simile, which creates even more sadness. The young boy sits in ... ...

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... that this tragedy is commonplace and death has become just another part of life for the men, compounding the horror that is their day to day lives. Finally, the bitter irony of the poem is revealed in the last lines as Owen attacks those who would argue that death in war is glorious. "My friend, you would not tell with ... ...

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... its starting point, becomes 'impersonalised' by the tradition in which the poet works; and third, his use of quotations from and allusions to other poets' work for reference, parody, irony, and a sense of continuing intertextual communication and community. Difficulties are created by Eliot's frequent allusions to other literatures, languages, and cultures. Many of these references are difficult to follow, require ... ...

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... honourable to die for the cause. Owen uses poetic devices such as the imagery of the soldiers face as he dies, similes that contrast the stereotypical image of a soldier and irony to directly attack the common war cries and attitudes used to recruit young men into the army during World War One and ultimately positions its reader to respond negatively to ... ...

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... Women's Army Corps even though that was work assigned to the working class women and the upper class women's work was only to pray, it gives the reader a sense of irony and a mean tone and leaves us wondering whether she will in fact keep her promise. The author is treating religion as a disrespectful ideology, as something that people don't truly believe ... ...

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... draft that President Roosevelt requested in 1940, many men of all ages were taken to fight for their country, which left women to fight to keep their families afloat. The irony of it all was that men were forced to leave the decision making process to their wives, daughters, sisters and mothers which they otherwise would not have done. Under any ... ...

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... war, he does not feel the need or the urgency to go back to the people and things he used love. Therefore the aspect of time has been used an irony throughout the span of this story. As mentioned previously, Krebs was at the war for two long years. These two years exposed Krebs to death, blood, war and darkness. All ... ...

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... wig from the package that Rosenthal receives freezes everyone in their tracks comically illustrated the shared deprivation of the female presence. Through these similarities, Renoir is attempting to establish the irony of war and the basic humanism that exists across all human beings, even though they come from different nations. Secondly, the issue of class distinctions is used to show the ... ...

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... the 27th. She immediately stood out from the other citizens as someone different, even threatening. When she arrived, she was joking lightly with her neighbors. Tessie shows a sufficient amount of irony in the lottery. The fact that she showed up late and that she was joking with her neighbor. When Tessie is picked, she claims how unfair it is that she ... ...

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