Question

What is ironic about the mother's wishes?

The protest will be deadly while the church will be safe.
The daughter doesn't listen to her mother and goes to the protest.
The daughter has already been to church that morning.
The church will prove just as dangerous as the protest.
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Answer 1

Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'ironic' as 'interesting, strange, or funny because of being very different from what you would usually expect.'

In the given stanzas from the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, the following is ironic about the mother's wishes :

The church will prove just as dangerous as the protest.

In the poem, the mother wishes to send her daughter to the church instead of the protest as she believes that she would be safe in the church as compared to the Freedom March. This is because such protests are usually associated with deadly violence inflicted upon the participants. However, the church turns out to be a rallying point for the Civil Rights Movement and is bombed for this reason.

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