Irony would be the correct answer
I think it would be the one from paragraph 4, it shows laura has overheard what they were talking about and her mood changes and feels hurt
In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau championed the idea that if a government is not going to improve itself, then it is the duty of the people to refuse to support it. This paved the way for non-violent protests, such as those led by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr