Passage 4

Passage: "The old veck began to make sort of chumbling shooms-"wuf waf wof"-so Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in the toothless rot with his ringy fist, abd that made the old veck start moaning a lot then, then out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful. So all we did then was to pull his outer platties off, stripping him down to his vest and long underpants (very starry; Dim smecked his head off near), and then Pete kicks him lovely in his pot, and we let him go."

The reason this passage caught my eye is due to it's syntax and diction. Alex desribes what how they are beating a man, and then finishes the sentence with how beautiful of a job they did, meanwhile the act in itself is a horrible, ugly event. The diction leads to the irony of the passage. Its as those this is their good act for the evening; the gang feels accomplished, so therefore they did a lovely job. It adds to a readers disgust in the characters, for its one thing to do something wrong, but to then glorify yourself as your doing it is just plain evil.