Oxymoron
- page 39: "Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway."
This is definitely an oxymoron. The characters of this book use the word 'awfully' a lot in the story, but in this case it just contradicts the word next to it. How can something be awful and good at the same time? Good question because I just don't think it makes sense at all! It does to them becauase awfully is just an expression they use ofetn. To the readers, this won't make much sense since it is not used much in modern English that we hear daily. When something is awful, usually you would think it is bad, which is not good. In this phrase, it is being said that the way the Catholic Church approaches this is good but awful at the same time. Doesn't make much sense to the modern day reader, but put yourself in their time and you would probably not see the contradiction so easily.
