Mark Twain's Irony

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Hey Diary, this is super girly and stupid and I don’t even know why I am doing this. Anyways, that ugly Chambers tried to help me get out of the river but I didn’t even need his help. He was idiotic to try and come after me to “save me”. The other boys wouldn’t stop taunting me, so I called him many foul names. That ought to have taught him a lesson for trying to help me, and maybe next time he will stop trying to help me. Anyways, afterward, I told him to go after the boys who were making fun of me and he had the courage to say no! He said, “dey’s too many of ’em” (Twain 17). He is such a complete and utter idiot. The actually irony of his actions is stupid because he first tried to help me when I didn’t need it, and when I told him to help

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