In mark twains piece of literature, the invalids story, irony is repeatedly used
- they don't want to get sick from the smell, but they eventually get sick from the coldness
- dramatic irony; the responder knows that a bag of cheese was left on the box, but the two men in the train don't know this
Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
