p. 236 "Next day he pretended to be the Prince who braves the terrible thicket of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Speeing Beauty back to life; he drageed a ladder to the wall, the shining coiled tuneel was just wide enough for his little body to creep in..."
This excerpt of the boy dying from the razor blades is one of the most satirical and ironic parts of this short story. But, the first irony occurs when the narrator says that she hates writing fairy tales, and she writes one. Another irony occurs in that the parents tried so hard to protect themselves from the dangers of the outside world, they ended up hurting themselves. Satire appears in that the narrator is trying to shy people away from fairy tales because they plant unrealistic and dangerous ideas in children. Girls wait for a Prince Charming who never comes and boys try to do the impossible, in this case, climb a fence with razor blades. The second satire is the message that the author is trying to get across that when someone shuts themselves up off from other people, they hurt themselves.
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