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Which sentence in this excerpt from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway is an example of irony?
My Knee did not bend and the leg dropped straight from the knee to the ankle without a calf, and the machine was to bend the knee and make
it move as riding a tricycle. But it did not bend yet, and instead the machine lurched when it came to the bending part. The doctor said:" That
will all pass. You are a fortunate young man. You will play football again like a champion."
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Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage

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