i have to write a short story with an ironic ending and i have no clue what to write about anyone have any ideas or examples.
2007-02-28 11:33:30 · 8 answers · asked by Aman 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The Gift of the Magi is a great example of a story full of irony, if you're familiar with it.
Has anything ever happened to you that is ironic? Maybe take that and turn it into a story. It could even be something about a person giving a speech on fire safety, to come home and find a fire in his house from a candle left lit. Or a person that has survived military service in a war zone without injury to be in a car wreck the day after returning home. That kind of stuff.
Hope it helps!
2007-02-28 11:49:33 · answer #1 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Irony is simply a reversal of expectation when applied to a given set of information. In other words, irony is the exact opposite of what the reader thinks is going to happen.
Little Red Riding Hood trying to eat the wolf at the end, and the wolf getting help from the woodsman to escape, is an example of irony, playing on (and reversing) the reader's expection of how they think the story will end. Saving up to buy a Christmas gift for your best friend (like an xbox game they've always wanted) only to find out they sold their xbox to get you a xmas gift is also an example of irony.
Start the story by making the reader think one thing, and end it by having them think something totally different, and you will have your irony.
2007-02-28 20:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read a story for English and at the beginning it talks about the character as a blood thirsty military captain in the past. In the end he admits to not necessarily enjoying his gruesome duty. Irony is the reversal of the expected meaning. in the example the reader expects the captain to fit the stereotype of being a terrible compassionate killer but at the end it is the exact opposite that he does not enjoy his duty. the expected meaning that he is an evil brutal killer. i hoped this helped. what you can do is just turn what people would think about a character around.
2007-02-28 19:46:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
have u read the rime of the ancient mariner? if u did not... there is a part during which a person is sailing in sea, with so much water around, but he's dehydrating because he has no pure water to drink.
anyways, ironic ending... action story... some person (like James Bond) is very smart and wants to solve something, but in the end, after solving many HARD mysteries to get there, he/she gets caught or something.
romantic story... two people fall in love. One person loses interest in the relationship after a while. but the other person keeps telling this person how much he/she likes him/her. But in the end, after listening to the other person for so long, the first person starts to love him/her, but the second person (who had previously said he/she loves him/her) loses interest.
2007-02-28 19:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by flit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had a problem with sea gulls at our workplace. They were defiling all the vehicles. So the boss placed an owl decoy on a light post, the sea gulls now sit on the owls head and screech! That my friend is irony.
2007-02-28 19:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by jaypea40 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can write about some guy winning the lottery, he could buy everything he dream of, and at the end he got killed by some other guy and his lottery ticket was stolen!
2007-02-28 20:46:41 · answer #6 · answered by emogurl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let's see... there's the irony of dying on your birthday, irony of dying after winning the lottery (or some contest)...
2007-02-28 20:11:55 · answer #7 · answered by gratisfaction. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did a whole project on irony.
my story was about a blind date.
the guy is set up on a blind date, with an actually blind woman.
i know that's not that guy-ish, but it works.
2007-02-28 19:41:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋