Question

Write down the irony with example from the chapter the lost child

Answer 1

The irony in the chapter The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand is this when the child was coming to the fair with his parents he was very happy and excited and wanted everything; but when he was separated from his parents, he only wanted them back. The kind man who found him crying in the crowd, offered him all the things that he had wanted earlier; the child didn’t want any of them, he just wanted to be reunited to his parents.

Answer 2

In the story “The Lost Child” is all about the bitter experience of a child when he gets separated from his parents in a trade fair.

Though a kind man tries his best to console him, still he is in search of his parents.

 The irony in the story is all about the fact that a small child cannot be convinced with anything until and unless he meet his parents.