Like The Sun Paradox Essay

Paradox is a statement that seems contradictory but actually reveals a deeper truth. Irony is the effect created when a writer sets up contrasts between readers’ or characters’ expectation and reality. In this essay i will compare and contrast how the authors of “Like the sun” and “The open window” present the concepts of truth and deception. Then i will also state what rolls paradox and irony play.

In the book “Like the Sun” Narayan uses paradox to show how telling the truth really can do more harm than it can help. In the beginning he decides Sekhar (the main character) needs to tell the truth that whole day. Then his wife asks him how the breakfast she made him was. He tells her the truth and says he doesn't like it, this angering and
Nuttel goes to the country as a cure to calm his nerves. When he gets to the strangers house a self-possessed girl lies to Mr. Nuttel about the reason the big windows are open in October is because “out that window, three years ago to a day, Mrs. Sappleton’s husband and two younger brothers went off for their day’s shooting. They never came back, in crossing the moor to their favorite snipe shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog.” She says her aunt would leave the window open believing they would return. Later the aunt comes down and says she is sorry for the open window her husband would be returning soon. Later when the aunt and mr. Nuttel are talking she looks out the window and says “Here they are at last!” This scaring the man making him jump and run out. This lie the girl says is an example of irony becasue she knows Mr. Nuttel is there to calm his nerves and she scared him off. Another example of irony is the man came to calm his nerves and become more calm yet his name was Mr. Nuttel.

Does truth help or hurt? What about deceiving? In this story The auther of “The open Window” uses irony to prove the paradox of how telling the truth can be more harmful and it can be