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.
Similarities- Relocate from home, Education
Differences-Status, Ideologies
Explanation:
Bruno and Shmuel had stark similarities as well as contrasting differences.
Similarities include-
1. Both of the boys were forced to relocate from their homes. Bruno left his home due to his father who got a new position in the Nazi regime. Shmuel was taken as a prisoner during war and later put in a concentration camp thereby leaving his home in Poland.
2. Both of them (Bruno and Shmuel) was born on 15th April 1934 and were educated. Bruno had a private tutor who taught him the ideologies of the Nazi party. Shmuel was schooled by his mother who herself was a teacher, taught him about foreign languages.
Difference between them includes-
1. Bruno and Shmuel belong to two different strata of society. Bruno lived in opulence surrounded and cared for by maids and servant at all times. Shmuel lived in a dingy, cramped barrack always overlooked by cruel ill-tempered guards.
2. Bruno was raised in the Germany ruled by Nazi’s to the parents who were on the side of Hitler’s regime. Shmuel, on the other hand, was raised in Poland. He was born to parents of Jewish origins.
There were many reasons for this. The main reason was it was there religious text like thee Bible today. Also it was their literature. Like Huckleberry Finn for American culture.
Could you please clarify where the new word is suggested to be placed, and what the current sentence is?
<span>the reformed Sasha indicate that he is applying for a position as an accountant.
I believe this happened in paragraph 2.
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