Wouldn't it be great...?

1. If Martin Luther King was alive today?
2. If we threw away our trash in a trash can on the street?
3. If no one was hungry?
4. If everyone had a good well paying job?
5. If money wasn't so valued?
6. If war just stayed a card game?
7. If we all help make the world a different place?
8. If we all recycled?
9. If we all stayed healthy?
10. If we all followed through on what we say?

Non-Fiction Analysis

The article “Prosecutors: Caylee's mom a 'person of interest'”, published by the Associated Press, details the disapearance of Caylee Anthony a 2 year old girl in Orlando, Florida. Her mother Casey Anthony is a person of intrest but has no been charged. Although, she does face charges conncected with lying to investigators ,child neglect and Circuit Court Judge.Anothony’s daughter has been missing since late June, and she did not report Caylee missing until last month. "Not a bit of useful information has been provided by Ms. Anthony as to the whereabouts of her daughter," Stan Strickland Circuit Court Judge said in ordering the bail. "And I would add that the truth and Ms. Anthony are strangers." Investigators said that Anothony’s truck smells of decompission and said they had found what they believe is a piece of Caylee’s hair. "The risk of her flight if she is released on some low bond increases exponentially, especially now that she's heard this additional evidence and that she is their person of interest," said assistant state attorney Linda Drane-Burdick.

A missing child is one of the most stressful and scary thing to go through. In this perticular case, Casey Anothony incriminates herself by not taking action right when her daughter went missing. It took Anothony about a week to report her daughter missing. How can a mother not take action right when she finds out her child is missing? Even though this story has nothing to do with polictics or oil prices, its just as important as those two things or even more; politics will change and oil prices will eventually go down, but a missing child could be found dead or alive.

Irony in What is the What

In the novel What is the What the main character faces many examples of irony while living in America. For instance, he interferes with guns and robbery which is what he went through in Africa. Also the man who is robbing the main character calls him his "brother" because they are the same race.

Suspenseful and unpredictable, "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson. (adj out of order)

Curiously and cautiously, Nancy takes a piece of paper from the black box. (adverbs out of order)

Upset and complaining, Mrs. Hutchinson doesn't want to draw a piece of paper from the box. (participial phrase)

Having been around for so long, Old Man Warren thinks the lottery has changed. (absolute phrase)

Mr. Summers, the holder of the black box calls all the names from A to Z. (appositive)

12 things that are ironic.

1. An A+ student getting an F.
2. A big dog being scared of a little dog.
3. Loosing weight, and then having a baby.
4. Alanis Morissete's song.
5. A library that doesn't let books out.
6. Buying something that's already broken.
7. Getting into a car accident in a new car.
8. Death.
9. Getting dumped, and then getting a new boyfriend.
10. Winning the lottery.
11. Eating something you're allergic to.
12. Trying to dye your hair blond but it turns orange.

The irony in "The Chaser"

Irony is the discrepancy between what is said and what is meant, what is said and what is done, what is expected or intended and what happens, what is meant or said and what others understand. The short story "The chaser" has many of these examples. For example, Alan is a young man looking for a love potion to make a girl he is interested in fall in love with him. The old man who sells these potions first talks about a "glove cleaner," which we later learn is an antidote to the love potion Alan seeks. The irony in this is the main character Alan thinks he wont have to go back for anything because he will be so happy, but the old man already knows that he will go back for the death antidote. In the end of the story, after Alan leaves the store, he says "Good bye" thinking he won't ever have to go back, but the old man says "Au revior" which in french means "see you later," because he knows that Alan will come back later.

The Chaser

The short story "The Chaser," by John Collier, has many ambiguties within it. The main character Alan is looking for a love potion to make the person he's interested in show love towards him. The other character- the old man -first talks about a potion that speeds up the process of death before even mentioning he has a love potion. Menacingly, the old man describes the antidote that speeds up one’s process of death. (adverbs out of order). The old man says that it costs 5,000 dollars for just a teaspoon. The old man describes the potion as a "life cleaner" but Alan doesn’t catch on that it ends someone’s life. The old man talks about one thing, but Alan takes it to mean something else. This is the source of ambiguity in the story.