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Most of the people use ironic to say what they thought in the
opposite and in the humorous way, but the normal author use the ironic to
illustrate the feeling of the character. Due to the complexity of the authors
mind, he dont want to tell us directly what the thing was going on in the
story, so he use this devise to show the information. The story that I was
going to discuss is The Shawl. This story happened around 1993, when the
Nazis stepped up to wipe out all the Jewish in Germany. All the main
The story began with Rosa carried her little daughter by the shawl
which it can comfort her keep her safety. Rosa tried to protect Magda, who
is the only baby that survives in the camp, from the guard. However,
Magda sister, Stella, dont fell the same way as her mom. She tries to get
rid of her sibling. She uncovered the shawl from Magda, and that lead
Magda to dead. Due to their status, they dont have much choice to choose
what they want. The irony reflects the feeling of the character in each
situation. At the beginning of the story, the author said, the face, very
round, a pocket mirror of the face: but it not Rosas bleak complexion
you could think she was one of their baby. In this statement, the narrative
describe that Magda looks differently, just like the German, nevertheless
Rosa is still trying to protect Magda, the baby, from German solider, so it
means that there is no any mercy in the camp even the baby that shared the
Moreover, in the shawl, the author also uses the development of the
baby to illustrate the difficulty of living in the camp. After the story show
the dilemma of what Rosa have to choose between let her children go with
the stranger or be with her, the author used the metaphor to engage the
reader of what Rosa feel that the bad thing will going to happen with her
baby. The neat grip of the tiny how shining, an elfin tombstone of
white marble gleaming there. He express that the first teeth of Magda will
be the last development of her life because she is going to die soon.
ironic and metaphor- to make the reader feel more engage in the story. He