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Situational Irony
Key Examples in Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 17
Explanation and Analysis—Travel Guide with Plot:
Around the World in Eighty Days reads like a 19th-century travel guide with a plot, shuttling back and forth between a highly descriptive style and a style that emphasizes plot and character more than setting. For example, in Chapter 17, the narration slips a description of mangoes into an exchange between Passepartout and Aouda:
Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes—a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp, melting in the mouth, affords gourmands a delicious sensation—was waiting for them on deck. He was only too glad to offer some mangoes to Aouda, who thanked him very gracefully for them.
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