What is particularly ironic about what happens in this story? A Andrea is the first person in her class to spot a whale. B Rafi
doesn't notice Andi's lack of enthusiasm for the whale watch. C The weather is chilly and gray on the day of the whale watch. D Rafi gets terribly seasick on the boat, but Andrea feels fine.
A, C and D are just describing some trivial details of the whale watch that, when it comes down to Irony as such, lack the personal scope necessary for using the literary tecnique, where language is used in a deliberately contrary manner. So it has to B.
This righteous and lively indignation on the part of Californians after the long period of deathlike apathy, in which they have witnessed the destruction of other groves unmoved, seems strange until the rapid growth that right public opinion has made during the last few years is considered and the peculiar interest that attaches to the Calaveras giants.
