"Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death." (page 115)
This is Ironic because the moment he was liberated (freed) he was back to struggling to live, and he was struggling to live in the concentration camps.
This battle was ironic because two weeks before the Battle of New Orleans was fought a Peace Treaty was signed in Britain to end the war, but US and British soldiers fighting in America did not find out about it yet. So to put it simply, the Battle was fought after the War had already officially ended.
The 2nd paragraph (at the end of it though)-
There was no reason for the world to end. There was no catalyst. The world will not end without some catastrophic natural event big enough to end it.
Nobody knows for sure. The Bible tells us to live in readiness, 'it will come as a thief in the night'.
because you touch yourself at night.
"The darkest hour is just before the dawn." "In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer." "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
they stink
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The fire at the end of the novel is ironic because it was meant to bring destruction and chaos, but instead, it ends up bringing clarity and renewal to the characters and their relationships.
Because he lost his head in the end.
The prisoners are expected to be afraid of death, yet they actually feel relieved and even hopeful for the air raid to bring their end. This is ironic because it goes against the natural instinct of self-preservation and shows how severe the suffering in the camp must be for death to be seen as a release.
The war did'nt end at Yorktown. It raged on for two more years.
The gift of the magi is ironic because both characters make sacrifices to buy gifts for each other that end up being useless due to the sacrifices they made.
What is so ironic is that Anne's dad was actually the prison guard, the person who abused the inmates and in the end, Gabriella's dad turns out to be one of those prisoners. The most ironic part was Anne's dad, the abuser, had more scars than Gabriella's father.
Some of the funniest Desperate Housewives quotes are: "Sometimes evil drives a mini-van."- Mr. Shaw, "You know what they say- ugly plus money equals handsome!"- Renee Perry
Yes. Anytime you use someone else's words, you need to show that you are quoting them -- with quotation marks.
Quotes are preceded and followed by quotation marks. Such as "this"...