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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.4 Reading Skills. What is tragically ironic about this statement in light of Gregor's situation?


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Hurry and here's your shmoop to use your brought to

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you by change history is one constant Just ask your

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grandma about her wild years actually if you don't do

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that ski area all right check out this transformative passage

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for inventing and you like your breakfast Parents think aboutthe

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alright In paragraph five gregor decides to make the big

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change No we dare ask what that means What is

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tragically ironic about this statement in light of his situation

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and the options are gregor help Return fire Uh all

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right Well now it's helpful the first Keep in mind

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the definition of dramatic irony This is a literary plot

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device where the readers knowledge of events surpasses that of

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the characters That is like the reader knows what's coming

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characters have no idea poor thing So now let's look

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at the answers All right Well it is true that

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medical science hasn't yet found a cure for human to

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roach transformations but scientists also haven't yet found a human

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that's experienced one so far that's not really tragically ironic

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s o much as unsurprising so get rid of a

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regarding answer b gregor's parents maybe up to their ears

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in debt but that doesn't really have anything to do

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with the irony of gregor's decision teo make a change

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and his work experience isn't really relevant or ironic either

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So get rid of it What is something that the

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readers are ironically aware of that greg or isn't Well

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how about the fact that he just turned into a

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giant mutant cockroach C x men and every one of

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those in there sees the correct answer because gregor has

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already gone through a giant irreversible Change And yet he's

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still utterly confident he can improve his circumstance which is

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very ironic and rather tragic kind of like that leopard

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print leotardo Your grandma still keeps hidden away somewhere You 00:02:08.99 --> [endTime] just don't want to go help What Well

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