Irony

Irony is when somebody says or shows something that means the opposite. Irony has existed in my life because people, as usual, look at me and define me by how I look, act or talk. I talk different then how I write. I have also see this in school. Teachers will fail me for being in class and doing work, and pass the one that cuts and gets in trouble.

In the poem "Richard Cory", Richard Cory was a clean, rich, well behaved man. When he walked down the street, people looked at him. People wished they were in his place. When he walked down the street, he attracted everyone's attention. Until one day, a summer night, he put a bullet through his head. The irony of this poem is Richard Cory was rich and people envied him. He probably didn't like his life or showed people he had no problems but deep inside. Maybe was depressed. The poem stated that Richard Cory was rich, a gentleman, and he glittered when he walked. Fluttered pulses when he said "Good Morning", showing he was a nice man. Later on, one day he killed himself meaning his life wasn't all that good like the neighbors thought it was. It didn't actually shock me that much because now a days, someone that seems nice, clean, calm and rich, can have problems, be depressed and even fall and turn poor. In "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, a man called Sanger Rainsford swam to an island, after falling of a yacht. He is from New York City. He was wandering around until he met General Zaroff. General Zaroff is a very good hunter. When they met, they asked each other questions like what do they do for a living. General Zaroff told Rainsford that he is a hunter that hunts dangerous animals. Rainsford tells him that the Cape buffalo is the largest he ever saw. General Zaroff disagrees with Rainsford, also stating that he wants a more dangerous hunt. Rainsford asked for what animal, General Zaroff meant humans as in other men that he gives them a chance to hide for three days and if the General finds them, then they get killed but if the general don't get to find them then he let's them leave. Later on in the story, Rainsford told General Zaroff that he wants to leave. That's when the general started playing the game with Rainsford. Rainsford did tricks he learned before but the general already knew them so he just left it for the next day. On the last day, Rainsford escaped the island, but he swam back to the general's house. Rainsford hid behind the curtains until the general got home. Rainsford surprised him and in the end, he was the one that got to sleep in the comfy bed. The irony in this story is often showed in the end. Rainsford was not a hunter, General Zaroff was a hunter and Rainsford ended up hunting the general. "The House That Slaves Built" by Gardiner Harris is about the white house. "The house that slaves built" is basically saying that slaves were the one who built the White House. The White House were build by crews of black laborers, slaved and free. Also Thomas Jefferson moved in with nearly a dozen slaves which they were the ones that made up much of the house's staff. The White House is not very good at welcoming blacks. People criticized other people who brought black people in th White House. Now Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, moved in the White house. He lives in there with his family and their skin colors are black. It seems ironic that the White house was built from slaves that were black, and now Barack Obama lives in it.

What an ironic picture. This picture is ironic because a bully in the subway questions the book title the passenger next to him is reading. The passenger is reading a book called "What's it to you?", so if he tells the bully "what's it to you?", the bully is going to think that the passenger is getting fresh with him. Wrong things can happen when you tell a bully that.

Irony can be seen in pictures, stories and even in the streets. Irony makes people think back about a situation. There is a lot of different examples of irony like the "Richard Cory" poem, which is a tragic irony. The words or actions of the character contradicted the real situation about Richard Cory. "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, is a situational irony. The actual results are different from the expected results. The general is a hunter, and ended up getting hunted by Rainsford, which is not a hunter. "The House That Slaves Built" by Gardiner Harris is another example of situational irony.

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