Sarcasm and Irony

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 sound so "predictable". Let's imagine a scenario on a book: something really bad is happening, caused by some idiot who by "accident" created all of this in a matter of seconds. Someone around him might say "Good job, genius. What are you gonna do next, kill us all?". As we all know, he was being serious and wanted that everyone died, right? Maybe, but the most likely possibility is that he was using this wonderful tool called sarcasm. By "thanking" him to do that, he was using sarcasm to tell him that he did something awful, and he should not expect, at all, any sort of gratification for his actions. Of course, he could have said "You did something very bad, dont do that again", but that would ruin the fun and make everything sound predictable, something every writer wants to avoid.
Now to little sarcasm's brother, irony. No good story is done without a little irony. What is irony, you ask? Irony is very similar to sarcasm, but it is used differently. Irony is used when you describe something with something totally unrelatable, but it, somehow, manages to make a little bit of sense. The main difference is that while sarcasm is totally unrelatable, irony somehow justifies your point, even in the weirdest way. One great example of this comes from a story we have read in our class, called "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". In this book, an angel visits the protagonists, but they do not enjoy his staying at all. This is the moment when one of them uses irony and says she is "tired living in this hell full of angels". This is irony because, well, angels live in the sky, which is the opposite of hell, and somehow this makes sense. As you can see, irony and sarcasm are extremely good tools for writing, and even though they seem complicated, everyone can use it. This is the magic of sarcasm and irony.