Dialogue Analysis Dialogue is a technique used in literature that involves two or more people in a conversation within the writing. Dialogue is used when the author is showing a character’s personality, a conflict within the story or a back story for a character. Depending on the text is how the dialogue being used is given reason, if there is any dialogue at all. Through the analyzation of two texts, “All Over but the Shoutin’” and “F-16 Pilot Was Ready to Give Her Life on Sept. 11”, two different prime examples of dialogue are shown.
In the memoir titled “All Over but the Shoutin’”, the informal use of language is powerful. Slang words are used to help support visualization of the typical accents from the state of Alabama, such as: ain’t,
All Over but the Shoutin' By Rick Bragg Introduction 'All Over but the Shoutin' is an evocative, distressing, haunting and magnificently heartbreaking memoir of Rick Bragg. It is based on the moving reminiscence of a life of the author, who raised in poverty in the North Eastern side of Alabama. Apparently, Rick Bragg destined for either the cotton mill or the penitentiary, and rather turned out to be a prize winner reporter for the famous 'New York Times'. This chosen memoir is the detailed account of his father-- an alcoholic with a homicidal nature and the habit of moving out on the people who needed him mostly. Thesis Statement: The memoir is an attention-grabbing story of people who struggle to make some sense and strength of life's impulsive
Butler, Octavia. “Speech Sounds.” Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susun X Day, and Robert Funk. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 2008. 408-417. Print.
Graff gave an example of the author is directly speaking in the text in Don’t Blame The Eater, by using “I” (189). Another example he showed was in The Cask of Amontillado and in this case when the author used “I” he was not the narrator in this case, but the narrator was a character in the story(189). Graff suggests that one should look carefully at the work to identify the speaker. According to Graff, a tactic that can be used to identify the meaning of a literary work is to look at the conflict in it. Graff writes, “look for the conflict or debate in the literary work itself and then ask what the text is leading us to think about that conflict” (191). Then he suggest asking some questions to help the reader take a position on the meaning of the work. He emphasizes that the meaning of a literary work is always arguable and one should argue for what they thinks it means. He also included some templates to help starts to respond to others
In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. (Twain 2)
Deep-seated in these practices is added universal investigative and enquiring of acquainted conflicts between philosophy and the art of speaking and/or effective writing. Most often we see the figurative and rhetorical elements of a text as purely complementary and marginal to the basic reasoning of its debate, closer exploration often exposes that metaphor and rhetoric play an important role in the readers understanding of a piece of literary art. Usually the figural and metaphorical foundations strongly back or it can destabilize the reasoning of the texts. Deconstruction however does not indicate that all works are meaningless, but rather that they are spilling over with numerous and sometimes contradictory meanings. Derrida, having his roots in philosophy brings up the question, “what is the meaning of the meaning?”
The purpose of this essay is to analyse and compare the narrative situations proposed by Franz Stanzel in the dystopian novels Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. For this aim, I am going to focus on the aspects focalization (reflection), relationship reader-narrator, narrative distance, knowledge, and reliability and demonstrate that they affect the interpretation of the novel by readers in a significant way. In the end, I will draw conclusions on how these techniques serve to alienate the narratives from their science fiction setting to set even more disconcerting issues about human’s existence.
The most prominent linguistic aspect of the novel is its lack of dialogue. There is not one line of dialogue throughout the entire novel. This reliance on narration accomplishes several things for Kincaid's protagonist, Xuela Claudette Richardson. First, it allows Xuela to be defined by no one but herself. There...
Wright, Katy M. “The Role of Dialect Representation in Speaking from the Margins: “The Lesson” of Toni Cade Bambara.” Style. 42.1 (2008): 73-87. Proquest. SEMO Kent Lib., Cape Girardeau, MO. 12 April 2009. .
Dialogue gives the audience a clear view of what is happening in the story, but the
Diction plays a critical role in the development of the tone in a story. The type of words the author uses directly leads to the tone of the entire literary work. If ...
The author eases the reader into the life of the town with warmth and good humor. The reader builds what the children call a Negro ?snowman;? rolls crazily down the street in a somersaulting old tire; sits in a consolidated classroom in a hilarious scene where the backcountry kids unhinge a teacher from an alien ?north? county of Alabama. The children?s phrases, the slang of Southern poor white and Negro, and the language of the more educated people have a regional charm.
Dialogue is one of the ways Jeff Greene comes to life. Dialogue is what a character says and how they interact with others verbally or, through other methods of communication.“ ‘It’ll be good to get back to work, wont it?’ the Professor asked Jeff. Jeff said yes” (Voigt 16). Jeff is shown to be someone who doesn’t want conflict since, giving a simple ‘Yes’ answer gave him a personality making him seem like a real person. Dialogue is shown to be another important way of how Jeff Greene comes to life along with the other author’s craft
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. Literature: Reading & Reacting & Writing. 4th ed. Boston: Earl McPeek, 2000. 388-423.
...ing, symbolism, and the ageless dilemma of communication problems provides an excellent dialogue, giving the story an interesting twist indicative of his style
“In my estimation a good book first must contain little or no trace of the author unless the author himself is a character. That is, when I read the book I should not feel that someone is telling me the story but t...