How Does Tim O Brien Use Situational Irony In Curt Lemon

The feelings of shame followed the soldiers into the war as well, and made them do unordinary and crazy things. In chapter 8 Curt Lemon faints when an army dentist treats him, much to his own shame. To prove to the men in his Company, as well as to himself, that he's man enough and brave enough to see the dentist, he went to the dentist's tent in the middle of the night and demanded that he pull out some of Lemon's perfectly healthy teeth. Survivor's guilt haunts many of O'Brien's friends, as well as O'Brien himself. Norman Bowker can't shake the shame of not winning The Silver Star of Valor because he thinks that he would have won it if he had not failed to save Kiowa in chapter 15. Shame and guilt followed Bowker with such an intensity that he eventually hung himself.

This quote showed that Curt Lemon is a very sensitive person emotionally. He can’t just take anything as a joke, and I can relate to this because I like to take everything serious. Jokes are okay once in awhile, but some people just don’t enjoy them. I selected this because I feel Curt and I have the same type of personality throughout the story so far. My reaction was that he doesn’t have to go along with others and laugh everything off because he has his own opinion on what he wants to do. This

O’Brien uses irony to convey the bizarre aspect of the story, keeping the purpose of his true-war

Flannery O’Connor is a well-known female writer raised in an area around Milledgeville, Georgia. Her pious Roman Catholic upbringing seems to have been overbearing and manipulative, a common theme in her short stories. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People”, two of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, irony is also a prevailing theme.

Curt Lemon got one of his perfectly good teeth pulled because he was so scared and nervous about seeing a dentist that he went crazy. First, the reader could tell that Curt Lemon was very nervous to see the dentist because “Curt Lemon began to tense up. He kept fidgeting, playing with his dog tags.”(O’Brien 83). This showed the rest of the soldiers that he was nervous of seeing the dentist if he would have started doing that no one would have known that he was nervous about it. Furthermore, he showed that he was nervous by he told the rest of the soldiers that he wasn’t going to do it “No way. Count me out. Nobody messes with these teeth.”(O’Brien 83). He was so nervous about the exam that he said he was going to tell the dentist that he could

Tim O’ Brien uses a metaphor to describe the way the old guy walks. It is interpreting that the old man had great balance and focus just like a tightrope walker keeping balance and trying not to fall off the rope.

- The opening includes the brave Curt Lemon who sparks a conversation regarding his fear of dentists and is brave enough to tell a new arriving dentist to yank out a perfectly good tooth, this kind of bravery is useless as it predicts his sudden death at the end when he dies while playing with a grenade. The tooth yanking for no reason also relates to him wanting to get the pain out of his

The play Much Ado About Nothing by WIlliam Shakespeare is about two young couples who find love. One couple found each right away in the play with troubles in the middle, while the other couple had trouble in the beginning and found each other at the end. Shakespeare uses situational irony and epistrophe to argue that appearance versus reality can create ideas of what people think and believe.

Vancil first illustrates how this book is unlike any other that Ernest Gaines has written; it took him ten years to write it and is argued to be his best novel to this day. In the novel, Vancil recognizes how Gaines utilizes the first person point of view to share the narrative. With this, Vancil claims that since Grant Wiggins, the narrator, is not naive but yet mindful and judgemental, then therefore his tone is often ironic. Vancil then continues his theory about irony and establishes that in conclusion, the readers are able to connect with the characters while at the same time not get too close in order to maintain a clear vision of the moral part of the story.

Each year in the United States of America there are 44,193 deaths by suicide, according to American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, 2017), Richard Cory, the character, falls into this statistic. While reading through the poem “Richard Cory” a reader, like the townspeople, would not expect the main character to fall subject to suicide. But like in real life, in this poem the signs that someone is struggling with suicidal thoughts may not be as apparent as one may think they would be. In the poem “Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson he depicts a seemingly right-minded man who is admired by the town. Through irony, diction, and point of view it is shown that other’s perceptions may not match an individual’s internal reality.

Surprise endings have been shocking audiences for almost as long as humans have been writing. From childhood folk tales like those from the Brothers Grimm to classic cinema like Planet of the Apes, continuing on to modern cult classics like Oldboy or Fight Club, twist endings have become a part of our media culture. Twist endings are exciting, works that can utilize it properly generate buzz and leave their audiences talking about them and sharing them for years. Surprise endings are truly the best endings of stories. Situational irony itself is a great literary device that is almost required to drive a narrative forward, plot twists are needed to keep a story from stagnating or dragging on, they keep tales fresh and exciting, egging the audience

Ozymandias “We look before and after, and pine for what is not; our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley. Percy Shelley was an English poet born in Broadbridge Heath, England on August 4, 1792. Shelley was one of the most extremely regarded English poets of the 19th century. One of his works, Ozymandias, was named after Ramesses II, who was Egypt’s Pharaoh when Moses led the Israelites out of captivity.

Have you ever thought of being a perfect man who people wish to be in your place? Are you always happy with a perfect life? In the poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson describes Cory as a perfect man who haves a wonderful life but makes a wrong decision on a calm summer night. People claim that money buys everything but except for happiness for some certain people. In Edwin Robinson’s poem “Richard Cory” he argues that money doesn’t buy happiness through the use of metaphor and situational irony.

Irony is also used in one of the stories depicted in this chapter; when Kurt Lemon dies “Dave Jensen [sings] “Lemon Tree” as [they] threw down the parts” (O’Brien 79) of Lemon’s body from a tree. This ironic situation is very upsetting rather than amusing but it is useful in making the reader question if that really happened because it is such an inconceivable and almost offensive moment. If it did in fact happen, then it can be seen as the soldier’s coping mechanism, whereas; if it did not occur, the narrator specifically used this to invoke an emotional response in the reader. Both the title and the singing of “Lemon Tree” are incredibly ironic which makes it ambiguous as to whether it is real or invented.

Many people have believed that marriage validates a woman’s life and also defines her. Once this idealized milestone has been reached, she then begins to define herself through marital expectations. These stereotypical expectations include bearing children, maintaining a home, and living up to the preset standards that a woman should. Women have upheld this traditional role for centuries and have been reluctantly accepting while doing so. The problem with this traditional belief is that orienting a life around marriage—without experiencing the joys that exploring individuality brings beforehand—will only result in a woman’s unhappiness; Mrs. Mallard, the main character in “The story of an Hour,” experiences just this, for she is consumed by a severe depression that also effects the health of her tender heart. Her marriage becomes oppressive and renders disappointment and un-fulfillment in all that it entails, leaving her bereft of both metaphorical and physical life. She was never able to feel satisfied with her marriage because she never experienced life beforehand. In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses irony to illustrate that a traditional marriage harms a woman both physically and mentally.