In addition to pointing
out human flaws or missteps, uses sarcasm, , and other literary
devices in order to compel us to change or to remedy whatever problem or vice is being
illuminated in the text.
The story makes use of irony when George calls the
time beforewhen "everybody [was] competing against everybody else" because people
could use their natural talents and gifts fullythe "dark ages." It defies expectation
to think of such an era as "dark" when we see that people, in the time in which the
story is set, are prevented from using their superior intellect or heightened grace or atypical
beauty in the name of fairness. Such irony helps to illuminate the idea that we often place
fairness ahead of progress and common sense.
Hazel says, of the
speech-impaired news announcer, "He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him.
He should get a nice raise for trying so hard." Rather than hire someone who can do the job
well, a man who cannot possibly perform well is...
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