There exists two things in this world that are incredibly hard to understand, since they mean what they don't say and they don't mean what they say. Of course, i'm talking about sarcasm and irony. Why am I making a blog about this? The answer is simple, I'm out of creativity and ideas. That being said, let's start discussing that! Sarcasm, the "educated" way of making fun of others. Even though most people use this wonderful writing tool to make people look dumb, it has many, many other uses. It can be used to describe how does an object look, it can describe people's personalities, how they react to certain situations, and much more other things. The main use of this tool is to compare something or someone with a totally different object/personality, so different that it is obvious that the writer did not meant to relate both of them, therefore making the reader infer that he was using sarcasm. How can this be useful? Most writers use it to not soun
Recently, I've read the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and, in my opinion, it's very fascinating. The change in feelings throughout the whole story is an experience that not many books can match. I was honestly astonished once I figured out that it was no regular lottery, but a game on life and death. At the mention of the title, and through the majority of the book, one thinks "Oh, how lucky will be the one who gets chosen on the lottery" since one has this sense of knowing 100% what the lottery is about. This same sense makes the final even more surprising, which mades us remember that we think that we know everything, but the truth is that we don't know most of the things we should, and most of the things we do know does not hels us in the way they should. One example is Old Man Warner, one supposes that this man is a great man by refusing to let this tradition be destroyed, but when reading the book again, one realises that the tradition,
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