I think the theme is the cruelty and sometimes the inmorality of racist acts and activism .Growing up in this Apartheid era affected the author in such a way that she used The light of Ghandi´s lamp to express how unfair this world was with black people and continues to be. Being equal, having equal rights or seeking to have them should not be a reason to be put in jail.The girl´s sister is arrested because she is part of an anti- apartheid group and she participated in protests. At first she thinks it is wrong to have the intention to overthrow a government but then understands , with her sister in prison, that the only thing people are fighting for is equal rights.
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That he just wants to hang out, or he doesn't know what you like doing, so he didn't make any plans.
D. a series of events that build the plot toward the climax
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A. It helps the reader understand the implication of events better than the narrator could.
Explanation:
By definition, dramatic irony is the phenomenon of the reader knowing more about the reality of the matter than the characters themselves.
This literary technique in especially useful in works with unreliable narrators because it gives the reader the opportunity to know and understand the plot of the story independently of the narrator's words. In other words, the reader does not need to rely on the characters to understand the events of the work, thus being able to detect unreliability, where present.