The Irony of Sophie’s Aspiration to be Abducted
Soman Chainani writes, “Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped.But tonight, all the other children of Gavaldon writhed in their beds. If the School Master took them, they’d never return. Never lead a full life. Never see their family again. Tonight these children dreamt of a red-eyed thief with the body of a beast, come to rip them from their sheets and stifle their screams.” The children’s distressing dreams sustain that they dread their abduction. Sophie would have logically been petrified by the snatching due to its horror. Sophie’s ironic hankering for a capturing highlights her conviction about the prospect of existing like a princess after the materialization of the ordeal
The irony of “Sophie’s Best friend”
Chainani writes, “Sophie’s best friend lived in a cemetery. Given her loathing of things grim, gray, and poorly lit, one would expect Sophie to host visits at her cottage or find a new best friend. But instead, she had climbed to the house atop Graves Hill every day this week, careful to maintain a smile on her face, since that was the point of a good deed after all.” Were it not for the precondition for ‘a good deed’ Sophie would not have befriended a girl who is an outright contrast of her. Sophie’s fortitude to visit; her friend at the cemetery is incentivized by the probability of becoming a princess after the implementation of a ‘good deed.’
