Irony

Authors Note: This is a text analysis connection on two different stories.  I was trying to do A-B transitions again with this piece.

Irony is something that happens when an event is suppose to go one way, then it goes the complete opposite.  In The Possession, there's this really sweet, loving, brown nosing girl, that all of a sudden becomes possessed.  It was ironic because the teachers pet turned out to be possessed and scary in the end.  Also in The Ransom Of The Red Chief, by O.Henry, a 10 year old boy got kidnapped.  The irony was that he actually liked being away from home and he said he was having the time of his life.  In both stories there is an ironic plot twist in the end.

In The Ransom Of The Red Chief, there's an important quote that really shows irony in the story.The quote was, "When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg."  I thought this was an irony because normally when a child is kidnapped they want to go home and be with their parents.  But in this case, he wanted to stay with the men that took him.  I was really confused when I read this part because I thought that the boy would want get the heck out of there.  Obviously  I was wrong.  The overall irony in the end was a great plot twist that I didn't see coming.

Although there is irony in The Ransom Of The Red Chief, there was a also a great ending to The Possession.  A girl teenager out of the blue becomes possessed.  No one expected it because she was always on task, quiet, and overall a teachers pet.  One day she started growling at people and snapping her fingers and twitching.  At the end she killed a classmate of hers.  It's very ironic that a teachers pet would become possessed because normally those type of students end up succeeding in life and not killing one another.  I did not expect this type of ending with someone dying because the story seemed to be having a kind of cheerful tone in the beginning.  I didn't really enjoy reading this piece because of the non solved ending.  There was no solution because the possessed girl just ended up dying and killing someone.  She didn't become her self again and she just went on a rampage of twirling around, hitting things, screaming, and then eventually killing another student.

Even though I read two different stories and one didn't have a resolved ending, they still connected.  The way they connected was because of the obvious irony.  In both stories you would've expected a complete opposite ending to happen.  I was really baffled by how in The Possession, there was such a bad ending.  I wanted there to be a surprise but not that would disappoint me in a way that I wanted to write a whole different ending.  Normally you can predict how a story is going to end, but then when it happens you're sitting in your seat with your mouth open because you could predict it from the beginning.  Another way they connected was because they both had crime in them.  One story a kid gets kidnapped.  In the other, a girl kills another girl.  Now in most movies someone usually dies, but not by a possessed person.  

With both stories having a plot twist ending, they both connected in a way.  I was more shocked by The Possession because there was no solution.  I was kind of upset when I finished it because the girl just died.  I thought she would've became un-possessed and not killed someone.  Overall, both stories had obvious irony in them.