The instances of situational irony that occur in the above passage are:
The aunt expects the boy to accept her explanations, but he does not.
The aunt expects the boy to be interested in the cows, but he is not.
A situational irony is a form of irony in which the actions have an opposite effect of what it is intended. The outcome of the situation is totally different to what it is expected. In the above excerpt, the answers which the boy gets from his Aunt and the way he deals with those answers are an example of situational irony.
The first one is right. it joins two independent clauses with a comma followed by a conjunction.
Answer:
They want readers to see their essays as detached and fair and not as personal, biased opinion.
Explanation:
If you use I, me, you in essays it makes it sound informal and like it is all opinion. You want the readers to believe it is all fact and fair.
I think one way it could be interpreted could be, someone trying to figure out if what happened to them was a dream or not. I think the second way could be, something amazing just happened and I can't believe it did, it was like a dream. I hope I help you!!