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    Irony in Animal Farm

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    much power in the hands of one individual can lead to inequality and unfair advantages.  In the story it was said all animals should be treated equally‚ but as the story  progressed all the animals began to be treated unequally.    In the story Orwell uses the literary device irony‚ dramatic irony. Orwell was  showing us the hypocrisy coming from the pigs before the animal were able to see. the  animals told each other ​ “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk‚ he does not lay eggs

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    The Open Window Irony

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    its effects while “The Open Window” is based around deception. Both authors do a great job at setting examples of paradoxes and irony in their stories. In “Like the Sun” Sekhar‚ the main character repeats multiple times “Truth is like the sun.” I understood this as saying without truth‚ you can’t grow‚ like living things can’t survive without sun. One example of irony in this story is‚ that Sekhar told the truth all day‚ and then in the evening he regretted it because there was multiple people

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    If I Won the Lottery

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    I’m going to talk about if I won the lottery. In the first place‚ If I won the lottery‚ I would study and improve my English to an excellent level. After that‚ I would like to travel all over the world and choose some interesting places such as Venice‚ New York ‚Japan‚ or New Zealand‚ to live there two or three years. Those are my favourite places. Living in those places would give the change to make many friends. On the other hand‚ when I get old‚ I would go back to my country and I would purchase

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    open-mindedness. Ironically‚ the Church – the representative of God – does not save his life but let him down‚ and it is not a peaceful place for people as it is said to be. “Save the best for last”‚ Maugham undoubtedly has bared this in mind as he lets the irony reach its peak at the very end of the story. Now that Foreman has become a successful businessman with more than 10 tobacco shops under his hand‚ he comes to the bank for his regular depositing. The bank manager‚ impressed by his great wealth‚ invites

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    in interrogation rooms. With white painted walls and chrome/silver appliances. I viewed the café as somewhere that the old man could find order and confront the familiar nothingness‚ but I didn’t think the café was anywhere he wanted to be. “The Lottery” was a controversial story written by Mrs. Shirley Jackson. She introduced her audience to an unusual and peculiar ritual held annually in a small village. It was a ceremony in which each resident had the same chance of being murdered‚ and it was

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    In the short story‚ "The Things They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien writes about the soldiers of Vietnam and the burdens they had to carry with them. In this story‚ O’Brien uses symbolism‚ irony and the theme of burden and guilt to portray how the war has affected the men and the ways they cope. O’Brien’s usage of these literary devices serves as a remembrance of what the soldiers have left behind and a false sense of security about the violence and death that surrounds them. We are able to see the way each

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    Stacey Jones Short fiction paper 11/06/12 Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a chilling tale of a small town whose people had to participate in a lottery each year. The first onset of this reading depictures a story of hope. The first few paragraphs shows truth in what you would think is going to be a heartfelt happy story; it was clear and sunny‚ with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green

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    Irony Animal Farm

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    Farm. The main targets this political satire are the society that was created in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917‚ and the leaders involved in it. George Orwell successfully condemns these targets through satirical techniques such as irony‚ fable‚ and allegory. The immediate object of attack in Orwell’s political satire is the society that was created in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The events narrated in Animal Farm obviously and continuously refer to events in another

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    symbolism in "The Lottery" to give an overall point of view of the story. Even though a small village made seem peaceful‚ and a good place to raise a family‚ it is not always what it seems to be. The reader is about to enter a world with ritualistic ceremony and religious orthodoxy in "The Lottery." The Lottery takes place on a clear and sunny summer morning around June 27 in a small village with about three hundred villagers gathering together in the central square for the annual lottery. As a child

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    Irony in Richard Cory

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    ESSAI Volume 5 Article 13 1-1-2007 Irony in "Richard Cory" Peter Cohen essai_cohen@cod.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai Recommended Citation Cohen‚ Peter (2007) "Irony in "Richard Cory"‚" ESSAI: Vol. 5‚ Article 13. Available at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai/vol5/iss1/13 This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. It has been accepted for inclusion in ESSAI by an authorized administrator

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