Which excerpt from o’connor’s “good country people” best reveals the irony of joy’s name? a. mrs. hopewell thought of her as a child though she was thirty-two years old and highly educated. joy would get up while her mother was eating, and before long, mrs. freeman would arrive at the back door. b. another was: that is life! and still another, the most important, was: well, other people have their opinions too. she would make these statements, usually at the table, in a tone of gentle insistence as if no one held them but her. c. [a]nd when joy had to be impressed for these services, her remarks were usually so ugly and her face so glum that mrs. hopewell would say, “if you can’t come pleasantly, i don’t want you at all,” to which the girl, standing square and rigid-shouldered with her neck thrust slightly forward would reply. . d. she saw it as the name of her highest creative act. one of her major triumphs was that her mother had not been able to turn her dust into joy, but the greater one was that she had been able to turn it herself into hulga.

The irony of Joy’s name is clearly seen in excerpt C.

This paragraph pictures the opposite attitude of Joy, her unpleasant personality and how she responded to criticism. A joyful person would always willingly accept criticism as an advice and sees them important to become a better person. Also Mrs. Hopwell wouldn’t have complained of her attitude if she was living up to her name.

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

b. cronkite, a trusted television personality, declared that the war was unwinnable and told the american people that the government had better find a way out

even though it went against everything the news anchors typically stood for, cronkite voiced an opinion and took a stance, telling the us that there was no way they were going to win, the war was going to end in a stalemate.