'Verbal Irony In Twitness'

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The story begins when the grandmother forces her son to go to Tennessee with all her talk about the misfit. The grandmother showed her son the newspaper that was talking about the escaped prisoner from jail who called himself the Misfit. All because of the grandmother; they ended of crossing paths with the misfit and he murdered them all. The grandmother becomes more irritating and degrading on the trip, showing her faults. The misfit is a type of evil; the gun also refers to something evil or out of the ordinary; the spiritual home is noted also which refers to one trying to find a path to peace or happiness; then there are the woods which refers to their lostness and the realization that they are not as good as they think.
Verbal irony is

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