In the beginning of The Street Layer, the antagonist Mike was having a typical day at his law firm that he worked at. Unfortunately however Mike had noticed that he was being followed by a strange man who later becomes known as the antagonist who (when he holds eight men including Mike hostage) demands for himself to be known to them as Mister. As Mister was holding these men hostage he revealed himself to them as a suicide bomber who had makeshift dynamite strapped around his waist that later turned out to be chopped up broom handles.

 However, Mister didn't actually intend to hurt any of his hostages, but instead wanted to teach them a lesson about giving to the needy due to the fact that Mister happened to be homeless and was also a war veteran. I personally describe that as to being pretty ironic because Mister was fighting for a country that he is now living on the streets in. However Mister didn't hurt any of his hostages, he just scared the living heck out of them. But why is that? Well in my opinion, I believe that Mister wasn't intending to hurt the layers/his hostages but instead to just scare them, which he did very well. However the question still is why didn't Mister hurt them? Well Mister had a point he wanted to across and he knew and he knew exactly who to go to, the layers that evicted him from the only place that he could be in that had put a roof over his head.

 Well of course he'd be upset, he previously fought for a country that is now fighting against him. Due to that he wanted to scare those that hurt him, the layers at Drake and Sweeny law firm, and he did just that and even though Mister didn't hurt any of them he got shot and killed. So Mister's intentions weren't to hurt anybody, but just to get his point across. But did he?

            In the Masque of the Red Death, Edger Allan Poe presents his readers with a story that has quite an ironic theme and characters with ironic names. For example the main character who’s name is Prince Prospero (which sounds a lot like prosperous), makes this story even more uniquely ironic. How does this name make this story even more uniquely ironic you ask. Well in the Masque of the Red Death, prosperous Prince Prospero finds himself in a not so prosperous event.

            In this story it started out with a typical day in a typical castle with typical events. However don’t be so fooled by this series of typical events because, unfortunately, for our prosperous prince, these events change. Prince Prospero was a very foolish man that right outside of his castle walls was a surrounding town of people that were sick and dying of a horrible disease. Prince Prospero on the other hand, locked himself and those of others that he thought were “prosperous” like himself, inside of his castle thinking that he could keep out the horrible disease that was killing everybody around him. Inside the walls of Prince Prospero’s castle, he had seven rooms that had many very ironic meanings. The seven rooms represented the seven deadly sins, and the colors of the seven rooms represented the rising and setting of the sun as the colors of the rooms went from dark to light and then back to dark. However the last room of the seven rooms was all black with blood red tinted windows. The even more ironic part about this room its self is that the black walls and floor of this room were lined with velvet, kind of like a coffin.

            So if Prince Prospero is trying to keep death out, then why is there a room like a coffin in his castle?