In this book there is a lot of literary element shown in this book but irony is by far the most shown and noticeable in this book. the irony that was shown in this book is on page 198 in the first paragraph. he talks about when he was selling the hash on the streets of New York and he was hailing them with a grocery cart. The irony is real because after he got out of jail he was delivering flowers to people in a grocery cart on the streets on New York. Also another type of irony is when he went to middle school. His middle school was an old prison that has been changed into a school for children. It is irony because he ends up going to jail and he never thought he would.