Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Can you name an ironic situation in Chapter 11 of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

I think that there are many examples of verbal irony
throughout the novel.  Part of this is because Bruno sees things in a manner that is
fundamentally at odds with how the world of the time sees reality.  From chapter 11, I
would spend time examining the irony of Bruno's pronunciation of Hitler's name or title
is ironic.  The term "Fuhrer" is morphed through Bruno's language as "the Fury."  This
is ironic because it is an apt description of what Hitler was doing to millions of
people while others failed to notice it.  At the same time, while Bruno is consistently
calling Hitler "fury," it is also reflective of the experience that his own family will
undergo at the end of the novel.  The emotional "fury" experienced is being foreshadowed
with Bruno's mispronunciation.  It is ironic that while Bruno is saying something that
everyone, especially Gretel, deems as wrong, Bruno is actually speaking correctly about
what is going to happen.

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