The Irony of the Police Search
Tatiana De Rosnay expounds, “She listened to the policeman continuing his clumsy search. He would not find the boy. The cupboard was too cleverly hidden. The boy would be safe. They would never find him. Never. The policeman came back. He shrugged, shook his head."There is no one here.” The police’s scrutiny would have straightforwardly exposed the boy and his father’s hidey-holes. However, they flop in detecting the obscured whereabouts. The ironic upshot of the hunt illustrates the margins of policing. Police are humans with inherent restrictions; hence, they may fail to uncover substantial proof in uncertain settings.
The irony of the Concierge’s Reaction
Tatiana De Rosnay explicates, “ Strangely, the concierge was already awake and waiting behind her door. The girl noticed she had an odd, gloating expression on her face. Why did she look like that, the girl wondered, why did she not glance at her mother, or at her, but only at the men, as if she did not want to see her or her mother, as if she had never seen them. And yet her mother had always been kind to this woman. She had looked after the concierge's baby from time to time, little Suzanne, who often fretted because of stomach pains, and her mother had been so patient, had sung to Suzanne in her native tongue, endlessly, and the baby had loved it, had fallen asleep peacefully.” Indeed, the concierge would have depicted some benevolence towards the girl and her mother. Instead she asserts “I haven't seen much of the husband lately. Maybe he's gone into hiding with the boy. You could look through the cellars or the service rooms on the top floor. I can show you.” Obviously, the concierge loathes the family despite their compassion towards her. Her callousness is an exhibition of her xenophobic arrogance which has not been alleviated by the mothers’ gentleness .The concierge upholds that she distastes the family and calculatedly backstabs them.
