Like The Sun Paradoxes

In both stories, Like the Sun and The Open Window, the authors use both irony and paradoxes. The use of irony and paradoxes is to create an idea within the story that creates a more detailed image while reading it. Each of the two authors differently, but also they used them the same.
In Narayan’s story, “Like the Sun,” they used a good amount of irony. Some examples of irony is when the headmaster expects that Seckar will tell him his singing is wonderful, but he really just tells him that he is bad for the ears, and that he should quit the lessons. One more example is when Seckar’s wife makes food and expects that the food is great and that Seckar is going to compliment her on her cooking, but in reality, he tells her that he didn't like