As an example to prove the opening statement the narrator states the following on page 266, “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.” The statement made by the narrator is ironic because who would be kinder to a person that they were about to kill? Thus proves the statement is ironic, usually if a person was about to kill someone the killer would probably be cold, and distant to the person, or the killer wouldn’t change their behavior around them at all. Since the narrator informs the reader that the narrator has never, ever been kinder to the old man throughout the whole week before he killed him seems quite odd, and it adheres to the earlier statement of how it is ironic. Thus proving the theory of irony, and mildly states the tone of
As an example to prove the opening statement the narrator states the following on page 266, “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.” The statement made by the narrator is ironic because who would be kinder to a person that they were about to kill? Thus proves the statement is ironic, usually if a person was about to kill someone the killer would probably be cold, and distant to the person, or the killer wouldn’t change their behavior around them at all. Since the narrator informs the reader that the narrator has never, ever been kinder to the old man throughout the whole week before he killed him seems quite odd, and it adheres to the earlier statement of how it is ironic. Thus proving the theory of irony, and mildly states the tone of