“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive,” writes Robert A. Heinlein, a writer. As many know, irony doesn't turn out how the reader expects it. In “Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ At Woodstock.” The father leaves, which would be similar if he was dead, because the kid won't see him again or ever get to talk to him again. Next, in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” Death arises for the whole family. Lastly was “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children.” The angel is near death with the beatings and the conditions he’s in. Although the three stories are much different from each other, each story shows many examples of irony. In Alexie’s
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Beginning off with, the grandmother doesn’t want to go on the family vacation to Florida because of a criminal. Everyone would expect she wouldn’t go right? For some reason she ended up going on the vacation with her family. O’Conner writes, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in East Tennes- see and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind.” (O’Conner 1). This is saying she wanted to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, but she still went to Florida with them. This was ironic because she did something we wouldn’t expect to happen. Tying along with that, the grandmother also didn’t want to take her children in any direction of a criminal. It would be expected she doesn’t take them there. What actually happened was she lead them right to the criminal. The grandmother says, “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I just couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.”(O’Conner 1). She didn’t want to go to Florida on vacation of the criminal, but she allowed her family to go, she also lead them right to The Misfit when she was searching for that house which was actually in Tennessee. …show more content…
In the story there’s an angel, it’s expected that the angel would be wearing white cloths, have nice wings, and a crown. Actually the angel is an old man so weak that he was knocked down by the rain. In the story it says, “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.” (Marquez 1). This is ironic because people wouldn’t think an angel would be weak and knocked down by rain. Next was how the angel was laying in mud. People usually think that angels wear all white, and how they’re supposed to be spotlessly clean. Instead of being all nice and clean, the old man is laying in mud, which would make him filthy. In the story it says, “The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.” (Marquez 1). This is ironic because instead of being in white spotless cloths, he was lying in mud, it’s not expected that an angel would ever be lying in mud. As one can see, Marquez created many pieces of irony in the story, the two that were talked about are the most
Beginning off with, the grandmother doesn’t want to go on the family vacation to Florida because of a criminal. Everyone would expect she wouldn’t go right? For some reason she ended up going on the vacation with her family. O’Conner writes, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in East Tennes- see and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind.” (O’Conner 1). This is saying she wanted to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, but she still went to Florida with them. This was ironic because she did something we wouldn’t expect to happen. Tying along with that, the grandmother also didn’t want to take her children in any direction of a criminal. It would be expected she doesn’t take them there. What actually happened was she lead them right to the criminal. The grandmother says, “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I just couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.”(O’Conner 1). She didn’t want to go to Florida on vacation of the criminal, but she allowed her family to go, she also lead them right to The Misfit when she was searching for that house which was actually in Tennessee. …show more content…
In the story there’s an angel, it’s expected that the angel would be wearing white cloths, have nice wings, and a crown. Actually the angel is an old man so weak that he was knocked down by the rain. In the story it says, “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.” (Marquez 1). This is ironic because people wouldn’t think an angel would be weak and knocked down by rain. Next was how the angel was laying in mud. People usually think that angels wear all white, and how they’re supposed to be spotlessly clean. Instead of being all nice and clean, the old man is laying in mud, which would make him filthy. In the story it says, “The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.” (Marquez 1). This is ironic because instead of being in white spotless cloths, he was lying in mud, it’s not expected that an angel would ever be lying in mud. As one can see, Marquez created many pieces of irony in the story, the two that were talked about are the most