Essay 9 - Irony

Ben Dameron
Mr. H Salsich
8th Grade A
03/12/09

Essay 9 Irony

Ironic Irony

(TS)Irony is a little but great detail when used correctly, and in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses all three types of irony perfectly in To Kill a Mockingbird.(SD) An example of Lee’s irony of situation is when Lula doesn’t want Cal bringing Scout and Jem to church.(CM) You would think that the blacks would like the Finches because Scout and Jem aren’t racist but Lula says, “I want to know why you bringin’ white chillun to a nigger church” (Lee,158).(CM) Atticus works for black people, in fact he is risking everything for a black man and yet that Lula doesn’t like them.(SD) Harper Lee does a good job of using dramatic irony in parts with Boo Radley.(CM) There are two great examples in chapter 6, and one of them is when the three kids try to see Boo Radley, because the entire time you are telling them not to go.(CM) The second part is when Jem loses his pants, and he goes back even though Nathan is sitting outside with a shotgun.(SD) One person throughout the book continues to surprise us all with verbal irony, Dill.(CM) When Dill and Scout first meet, Dill tells her that he is going to marry her.(CM) Later in the same chapter, he “promptly forgot about it(marrying Scout)” (Lee, 54)(CS) To be constantly use all three types of irony in a book as a little detail is very hard, but Harper Lee pulls it off perfectly.








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