Answer:
The fact that T. J. does not have the right to use the rooftop despite creating the garden.
Step-by-step explanation:
A rhetorical technique used by writers is irony, which is when the characters say or the scenario appears to be one thing, but the outcome is unexpected or the opposite. Simply put, it occurs when expectations and outcomes conflict with one another. TJ insists in the passage from Borden Deal's short tale "Antaeus" that the garden on the rooftop of the demolished building is their property. TJ thus refuses to comply when the owner orders his guys to remove it and states: "It is our planet. It belongs to us. Nobody may enter a man's private property." Ironically, the lads do not have the right to utilize the building because we are aware that it belongs to someone else. TJ's emphasis on "trying to keep it" is therefore paradoxical given that they were on someone else's land despite having made the garden.