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Junior's Grandmothers Wake Analysis

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The events at Junior’s Grandmother’s wake are ironic because at the end, as the guests lowered her casket into the ground, the thousands of people who gathered at the field to grieve the Grandmother’s life laughed as they did so. This action is considered ironic because funerals are meant to be sad and full of sorrow, yet, it is full of laughter. “Two thousands Indians laughed at the same time. We kept laughing. It was the most glorious noise I'd ever heard” (Alexie 166). Instead of wallowing in their loss, they all came together and laughed throughout the wake, which was what they knew how to do, as Junior

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