Literary · Asked 1st November 2012 · 1,177 views Is it ironic that... in The Kite Runner, Hassan's young son suffers sexual abuse by the same person who raped him when he was a boy? The verdict 20% ironic 80% not 80% say this is NOT ironic · 5 votes Cast your vote How ironic is this on a scale of 0 to 10? 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Definitely ironic Not ironic at all Submit vote ← All examples Random example → Submit your own → More literary irony View all → Is it ironic that A man spends 15 years in prison for 2 million but those years influenced him to refuse it at the end? 80% ironic 4 votes Vote → Is it ironic that In Pinter's play The Homecoming, Teddy comes home to his family with his wife Ruth and subsequently returns to his home in America at the end of the play without her? 50% ironic 2 votes Vote → Is it ironic that Writing about King Lear going crazy is making me go crazy. 50% ironic 1 votes Vote → Is it ironic that In the poem THE SNAKE by D H Lawrence,the poet throws a piece of log at the retreating snake even after continually praising the snake and behaving like the it was the poet's honor to have the snake,so majestic,at his place and all the while cursing the voices of education which told him to kill the snake? It would be better if you read the poem,we have a question in our literature text book regarding this,which I need to answer. 84% ironic 16 votes Vote → Not sure what counts? Read our definition of irony, or learn the difference between situational irony and plain bad luck.