1. Charity says “ You must be
losing your wits. Steal another man’s
slave, indeed, while your father ones a hundred!”
I think this is ironic because Charity says that she could
love someone who would do something for someone else. Dick Owens wants her to love him and marry
her. However, she says to him "Except that I do hate to see a really cleaver man so utterly lazy and good for nothing." Dick goes through all the trouble of getting his slave to run off but what he is doing is still good for nothing. Dick is the heir of his father’s
estate, why does he need to free another man’s slave when his father owns so
many and one day they will all belong to Dick.
When that day come he could just set them all free, why does he need to
steal another man’s slave when he will have them all one day.
2. I love this one Dick says "Oh, come now, sweetheart! I'v been courting you for a year and it's the hardest work imaginable."
The reason why I enjoy this one so much is because Charity does say that he is too lazy for any use because all he does is play cards or fox hunt. Dick has not had a hard life. He thinks its hard to court her wait until they get married. With this conversation the story starts to unfold. He goes on his adventure for it only to fail when he tried to get Grandison to run away. He can not even do that right. Grandison runs away but he did it all on his own. When I read this line it sounded as if he was whining when he said it which added the cherry to the top of the ice cream.
Situation Irony
1.The one that I though was the best one was when the story was ending. Grandison returns after the being held in Canada. The colonel says that he came back to where is master, friends, and his home is because he is loyal.
The next day Grandison and Grandison's whole family are gone and no where to be found on the plantation. When the colonel finally catches up to them they are on a steamboat. The story says
"One last glimpse he caught of his vanishing property, as he stood, on a wharf at a port on the south shore of Lake Erie. On the stern of a small steamboat which was receding rapidly from the wharf,with her nose pointing toward Canada, there stood a group of familiar dark faces, and the look they cast backwards was not one of the longing for the for the fleshpots of Egypt. The colonel saw Grandison point him out to one of the crew of the vessel, who waved his hand derisively toward the colonel. The latter shook his fist impotently - and the incident was closed."
I love the way it ended because Grandison shows he is devoted to the colonel the whole time. When Grandison returns the colonel boast because he believes Grandison returned because of how well he is treated. In reality he returns for his family. He does not want to be owned he wants his freedom. Who would want to be owned? He would not be free without his family. He got his freedom and the colonel was shocked by the reaction Grandison gave him in the end.
2. In the story Dick wants to take one of the slaves with him on the trip because the whole reason for the trip is to prove his love to Charity and do something good by freeing a slave. His father has him take Grandison. Dick's father and Grandison are talking about how good of a life he has being owned and how he gives him whiskey and tobacco when he wants or needs it. Grandison gets worried that the abolitionists will come in the night and take him away. The father replies saying "Your young master will protect you. You need fear no harm while he is near."
I find that funny because the reason for the trip is to get him to leave and to run off and be free, however, everything Dick tries does not work. He should fear Dick because he is trying to get him to be taken or to leave on his own.
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