The stories “Civil Peace” and “Two Kinds” are rich with development. Each story contains so much detail upon detail that not everything can ever be fully explained, especially in such a small amount of word. When thinking about the inside and out of a story they must look at everything. This includes the titles. In “Civil Peace” and “Two Kinds”, the titles add so much more to the stories. Mostly, though, the titles are rich with irony.

            In “Civil Peace”, the whole story is about life after a civil war, how it should be, idealistically and how it actually is. The idealistic idea of what it should be is so much different from the reality that it’s almost hard to see how they are related at all. The title “Civil Peace” is ironic to the story because after a civil war, or any war for that matter, there should be relative peace. But, the story shows that, this is not true. The war has barely been over and there is crimes and no help. There should be peace after this war, there isn’t. As it is, there is a war of its own still continuing on.

            In “Two Kinds” the title is ironic for a different reason. It isn’t ironic because of its difference from the reality, but its similarities. In “Two Kinds” the girl talks about how much unlike her mother she is. When in reality, at the time she is very much like her mother. At the end, though, she becomes more different, but she understands where her mother had been coming from before. The title is ironic because, although it accurately describes the mother-daughter pair, their minds are the same. Not two kinds, but one.

            Irony plays a role in every story and finding that irony is the key to understanding it better than you would have been able to before. The irony in the stories “Civil Peace” and “Two Kinds” is something, if not comprehended, would not make the rest of the story make sense. Most of everything to discover is in the title, whether it be story, book, novel, movie, song, or something all together different.