We concluded our study of the novel in today's session by discussing and completing the study guide questions on the final chapters. We noted how each major character reacts to Bruno's disappearance and explored how Bruno's father at last is able to discover how his own son has become a victim of the gas chamber. After defining the term " verbal irony," we discussed the irony of the novel's conclusion given the Nazi dogma that members of the Jewish faith were blatantly different and distinguishable from gentiles . Atticus did well in recognizing the use of verbal irony in the novel's final comment that something like the Holocaust "could never happen again in modern times." After completing the questions, I reviewed Atticus' work and repeated instruction on the use of "their and there" and addressed how to correct run-on sentences.