Like The Sun Paradox

The use of Satire/Irony within literature establishes situations where the unlikelihood of the occurrence of an event will happen. Jackson’s manipulation of his story, The Lottery, provides an unexpected twist to what one may seem to be a normal subject. Northrop Frye’s The Singing School, suggests that all stories are told in either one of four ways: Comedy, Romance, Tragedy or Satire/Irony (Frye 18). The use of Irony and its conventional associations eludes the reader from interpreting a story as a Romance, but instead give the reader a reversed twist. This use of ironic convention in literary work is seen through Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery; the story of Tessie

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, we see the miserable side of irony as Eliezer and his family continue to discover that reality is much, much worse than they ever imagined. In “Night” irony refers to the sad and terrifying departure between expectations and reality. Throughout the story, the characters continue to be shocked by the terribleness of their situation and try to see hope in each change. The author’s father, Mr.Wiesel, makes the wrong decision by not trusting the way out and it costs him his life. In this story the author uses three different types of irony which are verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.

In the novel ‘’Night’’ Eliezer survives from Auschwitz and surprisingly almost dies from food poisoning.The irony in this is that he could of died many ways at Auschwitz but ultimately almost dies from food poisoning.That is also a form of situational irony meaning that the situation turns opposite of what you expect.Another example of situational irony in’’Night’’ is when Chlomo Wiesel makes a remark about the yellow Jewish star,mocking it by asking if its lethal,but wearing the yellow star is what kills him in the story.In this essay I’ll be giving you more three more examples of irony throughout the novel ‘’Night’’.

There are three principal sources of interest in narratives: suspense, mystery, and irony. In the narratives “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Ronald Dahl, irony is a primary source of interest. Irony is defined as a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. In both of these cases, the use of irony by the authors greatens the impact the pieces have on their audience. In both “A Rose for Emily” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the authors have numerous pieces of irony throughout their respective stories; this use of irony creates a better reading experience for the reader.

Between the stories of “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Poe, and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway, the authors are able to control these stories through the use of irony, defined as a “contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. This can be a difference between the surface meaning of something that is said and the underlying meaning” (http://www.literarydevices.com/irony/). Within these short stories, each author has been able to bring the reader into the story by giving them the opportunity to endure the thoughts and feelings of individual characters which include the taste for revenge, and the bitter truth of a marriage. The way irony is placed into the stories has

“Isn’t it ironic? We ignore the ones who adore us, adore the ones who ignore us, love the ones who hurt us, and hurt the ones who love us.” As anyone can see, life is full of irony and imperfection. To illustrate this ironic and imperfect world are three short stories: Sherman Alexie’s “Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ At Woodstock,” Flannery O’Connors’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “ A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children.” Although each of these short stories has different authors and different plots, an abundant amount of irony is presented in each one.

The two short stories “Like the Sun” by R. K. Narayan and “The Open Window” by Saki (H. H. Munro) the authors both use irony and paradox to explore ideas of honesty and deception. In this essay I will present some details from the two stories and how they relate to the ideas of irony and paradox. Both of the stories have different ways in which the characters go about using the two concepts.

The definition of irony is a contrast between two things. One example is verbal irony. It is a contrast between what someone says and what one means, while dramatic irony is a contrast between what the characters know to be true and what the readers know to be true. Many writers use irony in their short stories to prove a dramatic point, or just to develop a story for upcoming use. These short stories by Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (140), Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” (183), and Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” (229), spin a tale of symbolic irony. Each tell a tale paradoxical twists with sublime contradiction where one is led to believe one side of an event, yet it is dragged down a twisted trail of mental sarcasms coupled with death. It is a known fact that many tales of irony require many major events to twist the order they are written in to create a viewpoint that stride away from the main topic or where the author wants the reader to end up.

In the two stories “Like the Sun” and “The Open Window” the two authors, Narayan and Saki, use paradox and irony multiple times. They both use paradox and irony to show the concepts of the truth and deception.

There are a couple of examples of situational irony that is apparent throughout “Story of an Hour“. Mr. Mallard being dead is one. The messenger comes and says that there was a train crash and Mr. Mallard was in it. Mr. Mallard is indeed not dead but we think he is but at the end he comes walking in the door.

Throughout the story, “The Open Window”, there are many examples of irony. Irony can be funny, serious, or even scary. There are three types of irony; which are; situational, dramatic, and verbal. Situational is what is expected to happen and what actually happens. Dramatic is when the audience know more about something that is happening than the character does. Finally, verbal is the use of words meaning something different than what they actually mean.

In the “Story of an Hour” we observe many instances in which irony takes place.

What he means by this is that peoples' lives are full of small white lies. One other example of figurative language in the the story is when Sekhar is listening to the headmaster singing. Sekhar begins to comment to himself critiquing the headmaster's musical talent saying things such as, “He croaks like a dozen frogs. He is bellowing like a buffalo. Now he sounds like loose window shutters in a storm.” (Narayan 193). Each of these statements are similes that Narayan uses to allow the reader hear now bad the singing is inside their own head. A final example of figurative language in “Like The Sun” is the paradoxes Narayan puts in his writing. Two examples of such paradoxes include the idea that truth is a virtue that leads to punishment, and you have to be cruel to be kind. These statements are paradoxes that Narayan uses to reveal that the truth is always the right choice, but people do not want to hear the truth and can get mad(better word) at people who speak their opinion. Even though it may hurt them initially, it will help them in the long run. By using figurative language in his story, Narayan gives the impression that the truth can have consequences if used too often.

We can say that “The Tell-Tale Heart” works on two levels of dramatic irony at the same time. The most obvious level of irony that most readers recognize and that forms the crux of so much literary analysis is that the narrator's obsessive devotion to proving his sanity undermines that devotion to the point which becomes impossible to designate him as anything other than psychotic. The irony in reading this story is based upon the traditional reading that irony is a result

The topic of discussion for this essay is a story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman called "The Yellow wallpaper. Firstly, several pieces of evidence within the text prove that the genre of the story is irony, in accordance with Frye 's "theory of myths". This essay shows exactly how those instances exemplify the genre of irony. Additionally, from a deconstructive point of view, there is a central binary of constraint and freedom. The examples from the text show both evidence of constraints within the story as well as freedom. Thus, proving this to be the central binary of this piece of literature. Finally, these two aspects can be used to show the similarities between this text and the short story "How to Become a Writer" by Lorie Moore.