The God of Small Things Book Analysis

The irony occurs in the story as Mattie ends up reminding Ethan of his wife, Zeena. Rather than being the lovely Mattie like she was before the sledding accident, Mattie now complains about her conditions. She is always bossy and condescending towards Ethan. In the beginning of the story, the author symbolizes Zeena like the cold winter, and she portrays Mattie like the warm spring sunshine (40). However, this symbolism turns out to be misleading. Frome begins to see some foreshowing of Mattie becoming like his wife when she is first alone with Ethan in the kitchen ( 53). Finally, as the story concludes, Mattie has now become the whining and complaining one (115). The irony of the story is that the two women turn out to be different after the smash-up. The idiom that says the grass is always greener on the other side turns out not to be true for Ethan. Zeena now behaves like the one who is the most caring and loving. She does away with all of her complaining to care for the two invalids. Mattie, on the other hand, has become like Zeena once was. Mattie has become the one who is like the cold harsh

For this book analysis, I read the book A Piece of Cake by Cupcake brown. It is a memoir told by Cupcake about her life. She starts the book at age 11, when she was living a normal and pleasant life with her mother in San Diego. She was quite close to her along with her step father (who, at the time, she thought was her biological father), and her uncle. Then out of nowhere, she finds her mother dead in her room and her life is shaken into disaster. The court system had to turn both her and her brother over to her biological father whom she never met, instead of giving her to the man she was raised by. Her father then sent her to a foster home where she was raped and beaten constantly. When she

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

In this poem, the Indian Agent creates irony when he claims that he always understands the Indians. An example would be when the Indian Agent calls the old man lazy due to the fact that he doesn’t fix the fence. In reality, the old man appreciates the fence as it is because it has fallen in such a way that it reminds him of a sentence written in an old language. From this, we learn that it’s important for people in a position of authority to try their best to understand others before they exercise power over them. When a person attempts to make someone do something that is against their values, it can make them feel misunderstood and cause them to become resentful. Another example of how the Indian Agent creates irony is when he “steps all thru the milkweed and /

As a part of the style used in this article, the author has a very effective way of showing irony. Irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what one would expect and is usually used to make something funny. A first example of irony presented in the article is when Dumas went by her real name, Firoozeh, she wasn’t able to get any jobs or make friends. Ironically, as soon as she started to use “Julie” as her name she made many friends and was able to get numerous job offers and interviews. Another example of irony in the article is that she wanted people to know her true self and be her friend, but she was lying about her name the whole time.

A life as a wife and/or a mother, is usually appreciated and is a happy life as well. A relationship between two people should consist of joy, commitment, responsibility, and most importantly love. For the two main characters in both stories ( “The Story of An Hour”, and “A Sorrowful Woman” ) this was not the case. The stories go against societies view with marriage roles and happiness.

Select an ironic literary work and explain the multivocal nature of the irony in the work.

The author of the story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, Roald Dahl, uses a significant amount of irony throughout the story. Dahl uses irony to make his story more appealing to the reader by keeping them engaged. An example of irony in the story is when Mary is six months pregnant and her husband expresses he is leaving her, so she murders him. The audience would have never seen this coming because the author expresses Mary’s feelings from the beginning of the story by saying, “She loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in the door or moved slowly across the room with long strides. She loved the intent, far look in his eyes when they rested on her, the funny shape of the mouth, and especially the way he remained silent about his tiredness, sitting still with himself until the whiskey had taken some of it away.” (Dahl 1-2). When Dahl shares Mary’s feelings, the reader concludes that Mary is an innocent, loving wife that truly loves her husband and would do absolutely anything for him. But when Mary murders him after he decides to leave, situational irony appears. This is an example of situational irony because the reader would never expect Mary to murder her husband, but the exact opposite occurs. Dahl also uses situational irony as an example of language. The language makes the story more intriguing and exciting. The situational irony is used in the story to shock the reader and to create the climax of the plot.

In conclusion, there is an example of verbal irony in the book Indigo’s Star which occurs when one of the rabble

Symbolism - Pappachi’s Moth Pappachi’s moth throughout the book is a symbol and marker for the reader that earmarks Rahel’s feelings, whether it be comfort or fear. When Pappachi loses the credit for discovering a new species of moth, he is cranky for the rest of the novel. The repetition and referral to Pappachi’s moth draws contrast between Pappachi’s emotions and Rahel’s. Pappachi felt that “his life’s greatest setback was not having had the moth that he had discovered named after him”, this relates to how Rahel feels at certain points in the novel, in the sense that he feels fearful of a potential regret. When Rahel feels especially fearful, the moth seems to be creepily present; “A cold moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly

Verbal irony is found within this story, especially with Bobinot and Calixta. In the beginning, we find out that Bobinot, the husband, and Bibi, the son, are stuck in a storm, away from Calixta, the wife. While away, Bobinot assures Bibi that "She'll shut the house. Maybe Sylvie is helping her this evening." Unfortunately, Calixta has no intention of shutting the house, if anything, she opens it. The whole time this is going on, Bibi is thinking and

Providing the two heroines with strong and engaging personalities, the novel portrays the life of two young Chinese girls, who because of historical events and family secrets, have to grow up faster than what they had planned. The book delivers emotional themes that are powerful yet familiar, and is written in a compelling manner.

2. Food and culture The novel The God of Small things begins with the chapter entitled "The paradise Pickles and preservatives" serves as the fundamental food metaphor that refers to the labyrinth life of some south Indians as well as the cultural undercurrents that wrap them. As Frewer states food is invariably related to culture for culture is expressed through values, beliefs, practices, norms and rituals. (168).Jane McCallum gives food a direct connection to culture.

First, the authors show readers irony through the customs that the isolated characters bring with them from their previous homes. Ideally, the setting that Maria and all the boys come from represents civilization and order. It is seen that in the beginning, the character’s actions still reflect their previous home. This is ironic because in a few cases, these actions are far from civilized; they actually represent they inherent wrongness in all humans. In

In The God of Small Things, Roy explores the idea of breaking boundaries by personifying the setting, focusing on everyday events, and manipulating the characters within society. The most predominant boundary in the novel remains the rigid social classes known as the caste system in Indian society. Roy gives each character a specific role to bring out the importance of the Love Laws, which set behavioral margins within the society.