Irony In 'The Narrative Life Of Frederick Douglass'

Irony in American Literature American literature is known for having some of the best books and poetry in the world ,and many of the famous selections have interesting elements irony in them.

One of America's most famous writings is “The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass”. “The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass” describes Frederick Douglass going threw his life as a slave and sharing the experiences that went through. In the narrative Douglass often uses an ironic tone to highlight the discrepancy between supposed and actual justice. For instance, Douglass talks about one of his overseers in the book names Mr. Gore. He calls Mr. Gore a “First rate overseer”(Douglass 44) ,and implies that he is a good overseer if you have no common sense of an overseer should be. Douglass also talks about how slaveholder named Captain Auld. This particular slave holder decided to go to a Methodist camp and become more involved in his religion.This made the slave joyous ,because they thought that he were to become religious that he would emancipate his slaves ,but sadly it did the exact opposite. Instead of becoming a more kind and humane person he became even more cruel than before. “He found

Foster and is one of New York Times Best Sellers. This book explains everything you will ever need to know about literature and more ,and it has a chapter on irony. This book states that “Irony trumps everything”(Foster 252). One story the book talks about is the “The Arrow of Heaven” This story is about a man being killed by an arrow ,but no one knows how he was killed by the arrow because he was in a “high tower with higher windows” (Foster 255). People start to say that god that the arrow at him from the heavens ,but what they don't realize is that “An Arrow can be used to stab.” (Foster 256) This is ironic because everyone assumed that an arrow must be shot from a bow ,but it was used as a knife