Irony

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Irony

Irony is a noun that means when the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. An example of irony: "I would laugh about a person while something bad is happening to the person and it would end up happening to me. Irony can also mean karma something bad or wrong can happened to a stranger and it could happen right back to me. I would be making fun of the person, People also love laughing about bad things that happens to others, or make fun of the person and maybe days or weeks later it would happen to me. Irony can also be the opposite of what I would expect in life. I remember one day I wasn't expecting anything to go wrong at all when I fell down the stairs. I asked myself "do I have bad luck or what's going on" I fad just remembered that I had make fun of a girl because she had fall down the stairs once when I was with her and started to laugh in her face. For a while it as funny but then she was in pain and I was still laughing. I remember she had told me "keep on laughing one day its going to happen me but twice worse, and that's what happened. Since that day I have never again mad fun of anyone again.

An example of irony would be the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson which is about a man who killed himself. His soul was sad maybe and we all envy him because he was a very rich and wealthy man.
"And he was rich--yes, richer than a king
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place."
He was a while educated gentleman from sole to crown. Richard was also really rich richer than a king and I'm still not sure why did he kill himself, People say it was because he was sad others say he was miserable so he decided to take his soul away. People would have love to be in his place to try to talk him out of it and to also help him out. We are still wondering what the real reason why he took his life away. In the last stanza it talk about how people had no meal they would starve to death they would only eat bread only with no meal, how Richard had everything, the poor was the ones that felt like killing them self but instead it was Cory who went home and put a bullet through his head.
"And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head."

The Irony in the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl is about a woman who has a husband. She's always ready for her husband when is time for him to go home from work. She wanted to send the evening with her husband relaxes and peaceful, she served him wine and was also planing to serve him food but he didn't want any. He had told her to relax and take it easy he wanted to tell her something but it was hard for him to let it go because he knew she was going to react a way that he wasn't going to like it. He had told her that he was going to leave her because he had another woman that was she reacted and killed him with a leg of lamb."At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head"."The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped bring her out of her shock. She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a while blinking at the body, still holding the ridiculous piece of meat tight with both hands. "All right, she told herself". "So Ive killed him". At that time Mary Maloney wasn't thinking stirght she just reacted without expecting what was going to happen she didn't think she was going to end up killing her husband and she did. The irony of this story was that the weapon disappear in the polices stomuck "how ironic is that.