Situational Irony

The classic authors O. Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck all have different unique style that are shown in their writing.
O.Henry’s unique style is shown in his work. O.Henry writes with situational irony. In the short story, After Twenty Years by O.Henry, he uses situational irony. When Bob realizes that Jimmy is the cop and that he had been under arrest it is difficult. The text states, “You have been under arrest for ten minutes silky Bob.” (228) This shows situational irony because it wasn’t expected that Jimmy was the cop and Jimmy could arrest his friend.(CD) This is a classic connection between life and style because O.Henry is motivated by his own experience about getting arrested. Another unique style that O.Henry used is moral

That unique writing style is called social commentary. Social commentary is when you put something in your writing that you do not like, but you still do whatever that thing is in real life.(CD) An example of social commentary is when Tom was saying that whitewashing the fence was fun and that he wanted to do it, but he was lying and made the kids pay him something to whitewash the fence. “ Without knowing it- namely, that in order to make the thing difficult to attain” (Ch.2). Tom made whitewashing the fence look fun to whom was watching him even though it was not.(CX) This is shows timeless because many people would make things look fun for others to make them want to do your own work, so you can just sit back and relax. The second unique writing Mark Twain used in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer his work was regional dialect. Regional dialect is when someone talks in the axcent of that time. Using regional dialect is funny for the reader because you can see how people talked in that time.(PP) An example of regional dialect is when Tom was tired of whitewashing the fence and wanted to switch places with Jim because all he was doing was going to get more buckets of water. “Can’t Mars Tome. Ole missis, she tole me I got to go am’ git dis water a’ not stop fooling’ roun’ wid anybody. She say she spec’ Mars Tom gwine to ax me to whitewash, an’ so she tole me go ‘long an’ ‘tend to my own business- she ‘lowed SHE”D ‘tend to de whitewashing”(Ch.2). This show that Tom is not patient because he was tired of whitewashing the fence even though he had just started the whitewashing. This also shows timeless because so many people are not patient with many different things in life all that have to do with most work.Mark Twain’s writing style is shown whenever you see social commentary or regional