In fact, Jones used situational irony to draw attention to the main parts of the story such as when Ned had died from winning the lottery after playing his whole life, only to die from shock shortly after. Another example would be when the man who worked for the lottery was divining back after issuing the cheque almost hit the phone booth with the woman in it, he did miss it but unfortunately in his attempts to avoid it he had caused another vehicle to swerve out of control and knock it off the mountain. What made this so important and ironic is that she was the only person in the village that had not agreed to sign saying that she will lie about Ned being alive and strangely enough… It is actually the priest who had hit her off the mountain and killed her. Evidently it is quite obvious that Kirk Jones had intentionally used irony at a good portion of the main events in the film to help build the viewer’s interest and to move the plot forward throughout the film. Similarly to Waking Ned Devine, Frank O’Conner’s The Drunkard uses one very obvious form of irony, Situational.
Irony is used in many places such as the story’s title, the setting an even in certain character’s personality traits. In addition to Jackson’s use of irony, the black box and the story’s title represent the importance of questioning irrational traditions and the unexpected nature of death. With the use of these two literary techniques, Shirley Jackson is able to highlight important dramatic events within the plot. Reading this story allowed me to better understand the importance of questioning society. If people would have questioned Hitler’s plans before he gained too much power perhaps we could have prevented the horrible mistreatment face by the
The story is enjoyable for its humorous portrayal of a family embarking on a vacation; O'Connor has been unforgiving in her portrayal of these characters. Misfit can be determine as sympathetic because he was wrongly punished, he had no other option than killing the family and polite and well mannered. Firstly, Misfit was wrongly accused for killing his father and was punished and sent to jail. I think Misfit did not killed his father because if he did he would remember it. He asks for the proof and paper work from cops but they did not show him.
In East of Eden, Cathy is a sinner who can basically control people’s minds. Adam Trask feels like Cathy is the perfect woman that he has been looking for and does not see the true evil in her until it is too late. Caleb and Aron can be compared to Cain and Abel. Because Abel was doing all of his work in the fields better, Cain got jealous and killed him with a rock. In East of Eden, Charles got jealous of Adam because he thought their dad loved Adam more than him.
Innocence is shown through the characterisation of Boo as a harmless man, he lives with his brother and leaves the house rarely he has little protection from the outside world, this can be related to a section of the book where Atticus says to scout and jem "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This symbolises the destruction of innocence in that killing a mockingbird is in a sense killing innocence as the birds are innocent, this can be related to Boo radley, he is
Others fulminated that he was a reckless idiots, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity- and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received (Krakauer 3). He is a later version of what the Hippies attempted when they left middle class society to live off the land. McClandiss said that he hoped to, "fix all that was wrong with my life." When he is found frozen to death in an old bus no one is certain if his death was intentional or a mistake (Smith). A person like Chris McCandless who has everything in the world is still unsatisfied on what is around him.
America ““profane young man" who according to Bradford wincers God's wrath by cursing the Pilgrims.” “ it pleases god before it came half seas over and smite the man with the gravest dieses” Brad ford. What these shows that he values the rich more than the poor. He has no ideals for humanely he just gave a kid a disease that he is probley going to die from “Crafting a peace agreement with the Native Americans, the Pilgrims demonstrate their kindness and fairness. “also shows that he can be resource full and nice and not make people mad to kill him and his people. The value that out weights the most would be how to stay alive.
When some of the townsfolk speak of the possibly of stopping the lottery, Old Man Warner gets very angry and silences them. Since there is no “savior” of these people, the Pharisees such as Old Man Warner are able to silence those who question the tradition with no resistance. Anyone who has a basic knowledge of the Gospels would clearly be able to spot the similarities between them and “the Lottery.” Oehlschlaeger clearly saw this resemblance in the basic structure of “the Lottery”, but is quick to point out that the main difference between the Gospels and “the Lottery” is that Shirley Jackson failed to include a “savior” of the people. Without this “savior”, the townspeople are free to continue with the lottery as they please. I believe that the Gospel where Jesus prevents a woman from being stoned to death was the biggest inspiration to Shirley Jackson when writing her
I herded sheep with him’” (44). The death of Candy’s dog serves not only as another tragedy in the already depressing life of the old man, but also as a reminder that his time is almost up just like his friend. When Carlson takes the mutt out back to be shot in the head, Candy begins to realize that he too will soon outlive his usefulness and be fired from his workplace. As an old man with only one hand and a limited number of days, finding work would seem like an impossible challenge. So when the opportunity to own a piece of land with Lennie and George comes up, Candy is thrilled.
Charlie perfectly demonstrates the message of the play, that every person fins happiness in their own way. Throughout the story it’s pretty easy to hate Charlie he seems to be doing nothing but hurting himself and the ones around him. Towards the end of the play the audience comes to find out that Charlie has one hundred and twenty thousand dollars and could be getting the best medical help possible. But instead of saving himself, he’s been saving all of the money for his daughter Ellie. Now it can definitely be argued that this is not the correct things to do and that maybe Charlie could have lived longer with help from the doctors.