Richard Rodriguez’s essay, “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans” use of irony is very effective because it grabs the reader's attention to think differently about immigrants from America. For example, Rodriguez’s mentions “ There's something unsettling about immigrants because… well because they chatter incomprehensibly, and they get in everyone’s way.”(87) This show that immigrants would get mad if they read this but Rodriguez does this in order to get the reader triggered and would want to read more. Which also attracts white Americans because they can relate when Rodriguez says that he feels unsettling which many white people feel like this with
