Waithea’s Suicide
In the story of Waithea, she drowned herself in the lake because her mother failed to make her a snack. It is a situational irony that she committed suicide yet her mother had promised her that she would make the snack later.
Racism
It is ironical that when Grandpa Marmon entered a café with his sons who were biracial, he was asked to use the backdoor. When he was alone, he was allowed to pass through the front door because he was white.
The jailer
It is a situational irony that the jailer ignored people who spoke to him in Yupik which is the Eskimo language yet he was one of them and he could understand the language. The jailer only responded when spoken to in English.
The Matron
The matron of the boarding school that the young girl went to was an educated Eskimo. She was unempathetic towards the young girl who came in and could not speak English. Instead of teaching her the new language, she whipped the girl.
The girl's confession
In the story, Storyteller, the young girl who is the main character confessed to a murder that she had not committed. The man who died fell in the ice and died as he was chasing after her. She did not kill him for his death was an accident.
