Reread paragraphs 31–35. How is dramatic irony
created in this scene in which Mrs. Murray returns home?

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.

His writing and speech is quite different than today’s. students struggle understanding because of unfamiliar words.