The poem has a good source of irony. The audience could assume that the story was going to go a certain way given the information in the poem. One could guess that it was going to be an average day with a cold setting. At the second half poem, a reader could tell the rest of the story as follows. When the main character slowed the car to wave at the children they wave back. Then the driver goes on with his day. But instead of waving to the main character in a predictable manner the children throw a “snowball packed with rock” (7-8) at his face. From the audience's perspective, there was no indication that the kids would do that for any reason. Which is true, the driver did not offend the children in any way so what the children did, comes off
