Read the following excerpt from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi: My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death over all men, and could hang anybody that offended him. This was distinction enough for me as a general thing; but the desire to be a steamboatman kept intruding, nevertheless. I first wanted to be a cabin-boy . .. later I thought I would rather be the deck-hand who stood on the end of the stage-plank with the coil of rope in his hand. ... But these were only day-dreams-they were too heavenly to be contemplated as real possibilities. What is one effect of the irony in this passage? O A. It makes fun of the notion that a son of a justice of the peace would want to become a thief. O B. It creates humor in that the son of a justice of the peace would find manual labor a more satisfying career. O C. It shows the innocent and fickle dreams of a child whose hopes jump from one profession to another. O D. It pokes fun at the idea of wanting to be seen by his friends making decisions in a courtroom