What is the irony of Lou and the narrator discovering western literature only when they are sent away to have decadent western ideas reeducated out of them?

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

What is the irony of Lou and the narrator discovering western literature only when they are sent away to have decadent western ideas reeducated out of them?

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Asked by Billy Joe #491221 on 1/4/2016 12:29 AM

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 1/4/2016 12:39 AM

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 1/4/2016 12:39 AM

The irony is in the fact that the boys were sent to be re-educated in order to remove Western influences..... not to provide them with access to forbidden literature.

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