The Sun (Situational Irony)
Many of the robots featured in the novel, including Klara, rely on the sun to power them. Nevertheless, despite humans designing these robots to be powered by the sun, they have also created a pollution machine that prevents the sun from fully shining, thereby improperly powering the robots that help them.
Feelings (Dramatic Irony)
The Mother is distressed about what is happening to Josie, and at one point says to Klara, "It must be nice sometimes to have no feelings. I envy you" (97). This is ironic because we as the readers know that Klara has many feelings—sadness, happiness, contentment, disappointment, hope.
Klara and Humanness (Situational Irony)
Overall, Klara seems to exhibit more human traits, or more varied human traits, than some of the main characters, including Paul, Mr. Capaldi, other lifted kids, and even the Mother at times. Klara feels things deeply and in a nuanced way.
Paul (Situational Irony)
Paul is substituted by a robot for his job, and then moves into a new society that seems to be more ambivalent towards, or even hostile to, technology. It has reactionary and conservative tendencies, leaning toward fascism. Yet he ultimately believes, perhaps ironically, that there isn't anything essential about humans and a robot could be just the same as one.
