The Trip Irony

The setting of a story is where the story takes place. The geographical location, it can also include waht the place looks like, the smell and the feeling. A setting can be hot, cold, dry, and wet. The theme of a story if the central point or idea that is being grasped by the reader. I find is personally difficult to grasp the theme of a story. Irony is a literary technique that involves, sometimes amusing, contradictions. I find it the most amusing thing to ever read. It can also be extremely frustrating when you know something that the main character doesn't know.

The setting in each of these stories was very interesting. I could imagine different places, maybe time periods and countries. The setting for "The Trip" was dark, cold and wet. It must have been squished, considering the size of the boat they were in. "and he has to start swimming or he’ll freeze to death." This quote from the story shows that it was cold water, so cold he could have died if he stayed in the water too long. The setting of "the Story Teller" was different. It was hot, sunny and they were surrounded by green grassy, areas. Since the small boy saw sheep being taken away and commented that there was plenty of grass, a bunch of grass for the

Rubio is fast. No wonder it cost so much to hire him.", Murad thought that is was Rubio, coming to get him. How ever it ended up being Immigration. The irony in "The Story Teller" was that Bertha was the best, and so you would think that she would have the best treatment, have the best outcome in life. She should have died happily, but she didn't, she was eaten by a wolf. The most ironic of all the stories, I think is in "The Yellow Wallpaper". John was convinced that she was getting better, she was eating more and being healthy, but she was in fact getting worse. Everything about her was getting worse, but he doesn't know because he doesn't know what's going on, he only sees what she shows