Answer:
1. "... now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." Esse é um exemplo de ironia porque faz com que o leitor acredito que os garotos querem que Deus os abençoe com um profissão honrada e honesta, mas eles querem ser piratas.
2. Porque ele deseja ambientar o leitor aos elementos que tem influencia em sua narrativa. A utilização de vários adjetivos promove um descrição detalhada sobre esses elementos, ambientando o leitor e fazendo com que o eleitor conheça-os.
3. “Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.”
Explanation:
1. Boys show that they want to be God-fearing, honest and live well, so that God can reward them. When we read this we believe that they want such a good and honorable reward, but they want to be pirates. This is a strong example of irony in Mark Twain's writing and adds a fun element to the story, showing how inconsequential and random children are in their desires.
2. In his writing, Twain uses several adjectives in order to describe the city in which he grew up, the steamboat and the cub engineer in detail, making the reader well aware of these elements and thus efficiently understanding the its influence and importance in the plot.
3. The passage “Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life," is very powerful and shows how the good life, satisfaction and peace that every human being deserves is the result of small and simple things It doesn’t take much to contemplate the ideal life In this passage Twain also reveals that the ideal life is one full of elements that bring us peace.
