Dramatic Irony In Artemis Fowl
In the fantasy story Artemis Fowl, readers follow an Irish boy named Artemis (Fowl) on his journey of restoring his family’s riches. Written by author Eoin Colfer, we see the journey of two societies colliding face-to-face for the first time. By searching the internet, Artemis learns the existence of “The People”, an underground society formed of many mythical species hidden from human eyes. He learns of their practices, gathers information of their ways of life and formulates a plan to take valuable items from them. Artemis takes hostage to one of their police officers, in order to receive their golden ransom money. Throughout the book, Colfer uses multiple noteworthy author’s craft techniques that help the story progress in various ways.
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Eoin Colfer took that opportunity with flying colors. Throughout the story, we saw multiple uses of dramatic irony. To readers, it seemed like Artemis Fowl is always one step ahead of The People. The use of dramatic irony gave readers a sense of what to expect next from him. However, because it would usually be only one storyline coming up with future actions, this technique made readers start to predict what was going to happen in the future and how both story lines would be affected. One example of this technique is between 104 and 113. I know this has been stated in the previous paragraph, but this scene shows a perfect example of dramatic irony, as well as the two points of view. This is the scene where Artemis took the missing officer’s tracking band and guided the LEP to another location. Due to having the two plot lines, we learned of this before the LEP did. However, they still continued their search, ending up being tricked. This method during this scene created a sense of suspense for the reader. While we learned that Artemis has done something, the full extent of his plans were never shared. All we could do was watch how the event unfolded knowing something will happen to the officer searching for his comrade. The second use of dramatic irony came from all around the book. Artemis has always showed a great amount of knowledge when it comes to
Eoin Colfer took that opportunity with flying colors. Throughout the story, we saw multiple uses of dramatic irony. To readers, it seemed like Artemis Fowl is always one step ahead of The People. The use of dramatic irony gave readers a sense of what to expect next from him. However, because it would usually be only one storyline coming up with future actions, this technique made readers start to predict what was going to happen in the future and how both story lines would be affected. One example of this technique is between 104 and 113. I know this has been stated in the previous paragraph, but this scene shows a perfect example of dramatic irony, as well as the two points of view. This is the scene where Artemis took the missing officer’s tracking band and guided the LEP to another location. Due to having the two plot lines, we learned of this before the LEP did. However, they still continued their search, ending up being tricked. This method during this scene created a sense of suspense for the reader. While we learned that Artemis has done something, the full extent of his plans were never shared. All we could do was watch how the event unfolded knowing something will happen to the officer searching for his comrade. The second use of dramatic irony came from all around the book. Artemis has always showed a great amount of knowledge when it comes to