Naturally in everyday life there is irony, but in Biffs life he is the center of it, or at least the part of his life described in the breif twenty-three chapters of this book. Biff wanted to go for a hike and decide his views on love and Tommie, yet on the way to find his book he finds a strange annoying girl who gives him all the answers. Biff could of well had Tommie, she called and asked him out. Isn't it ironic that not 10 minutes after they hang up, Hidi calls and wants to meet him, and that when she meets him he finds out the day he would of gone on the date with Tommie is the day he was going to drive Hidi home?

Another literary element shown in this book is justaposition. Biff and Hidi are polar oposites. The ONLY things they have in commom are pam and that they read. Biff reads intilectual book, books Keesha Jhonson would find funny, whereas Hidi reads sappy love novels. Hidi smokes, lies, drives underage, and has the power to just walk up to some random person on the street and talk to them as if they've known eachother for years. Somehow they find comfort in eachother through Biffs being shy , clean, conservitive and witty.