Ch. 7 - situational irony

Billy and twenty-eight other optometrists are now boarding a plane that is supposed to get them to a convention. Billy knows that the plane is going to crash but does not tell the others. This is what we call situational irony. Any sane person, if they knew a plane was going to crash killing almost all of the passengers would tell one of the pilots. Billy did not do this. " He knew it was going to crash but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so." (Vonnegut 154). He goes on to explain that everyone was killed besides Billy and the copilot. It is completely and utterly ironic. The reader would have thought that he would have died because it was a plane crash, but the fact that he knew it was going to crash and then lived made it even more sour.