Imagine your deepest, darkest secret eating you up inside. You have two choices: fess up and rat out your only friends, or keep everything inside, and suffer mentally and emotionally. This situation actually occurs in the book Red Kayak. Narrating the story himself, Brady Parks, the main character, recalls how he'd been waiting for a ride to school one cold morning in April, accompanied by his two best friends, J.T. and Digger. The three boys saw a red kayak heading out onto the river (thinking it was Mr. DiAngelo, but was instead Mrs. DiAngelo and Ben, their three-year-old son) and, despite the bad weather, neglected to call out any kind of warning. This was because they wanted revenge on Mr. DiAngelo for buying Digger’s grandfather’s property, …show more content…
To illustrate, an example of believable dialogue is when J.T. and Digger are arguing over green tea, like typical teenage boys. This can be found on page ___, when the book says, “.” This is an example of believable dialogue because it seems as a real conversation that middle schoolers in our world would have. Another example of believable dialogue is Kate and Brady’s conversation about Brady coming over to Kate’s house for a sleepover with J.T., which takes place on pages 68 and 69. On those pages, the book states, “When I bent down to pick up my books, she [Kate] said, ‘I guess I’ll see you tonight. Mom said you were coming over.’ Surprised, I straightened up. ‘I thought you were going to North Carolina.’ Kate’s eyes widened. ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘J.T. said—’ And it hit me fast. J.T. had made up the story because he didn’t want me over. ‘I’m confused,’ I mumbled, scrambling to figure out why. ‘I guess I got it mixed up.’” This is a classic situation that happens in middle school (one friend talking to a sibling of a friend who is mad at the other, who is supposed to be coming over, but doesn’t want them to, so they lie, and the original friend finding out from the sibling that their sibling was lying), with so much drama occurring during these years. In all, these are examples of believable dialogue because they seem as conversations real kids would have, and they help contribute to the element of believable dialogue to make Red Kayak be considered realistic
Throughout the passages, Laurie Halse Anderson establishes the Central Idea through the use of Characteristics and Imagery, revealing that the loudest words are the ones that aren’t spoken.
Blackfish is a documentary based upon orcas who are at SeaWorld. Throughout the documentary Blackfish, there were many rhetorical devices used. The documentary displayed very empowering rhetorical devices. The documentary also gave a great representation on why orcas should not be held captive. I strongly agree with the filmmaker,Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. To begin with the film started out with a communication climate that was both tense and without verbal communication. This was mainly due to the variance in membership constructs of the characters involved. The character's included the brain Brian, Andrew the athlete, the criminal Bender, the princess Claire, and the basket case Allison. There was a great deal of interesting nonverbal communication taking place between these people. Their reactions and responses to each other demonstrated perceptual errors, which would be shown as the story progressed.
How frequently is dialogue used? Is the dialogue always distinct? Does it sometimes overlap? If it does, with what consequences?
- Compare how this is achieved in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing.
Secrets by their very definition are truths that are not mean to be known by others. As a result of that, if what is being held in is shocking or revealing, it can be destructive. When the truth behind a secret is revealed, it can lead to a break in trust between people, and conflicts that shouldn’t have happened.
Mark Twain captures realism in his The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in numerous ways. The most well known, due to its controversy, would probably be his capturing of true speech of the time. He makes use of the “n word” in dialogue numerous times within the story because it was used regularly in that time period. It is a true depiction of the world he wrote about and to exclude it would be editing the truth to make it more palpable for readers. That simply is not what realism is about. Also in terms of language, much of the dialogue is written in such a way that the reader could hear exactly how these characters would pronounce words. This is probably seen most clearly with Jim’s speech. “No! W’y. What has you lived on? But you got a gun. Oh, yes, you got a gun. Dat’s good. Now you kill sumfn en I’ll make up de fire” (Twain ?). Though it may be a bit difficult to read initially, this method of writing for dialogue captures just how a man like Jim may speak in real life. Instead of cleaning everything up and writing
Everybody has friends; companions that have similar interests as them, thus letting them enjoy each other’s company. Friends tend to mess with each other, they can get irritated sometimes; though it’s not usually to the extent that they want to kill each other. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man called Montresor tells the story about when he gets infuriated enough that he kills his “friend.” Montresor had a friend named Fortunato who had wronged Montresor many times. Montresor seeks revenge, tricking Fortunato to look for a cask of Amontillado, and burying him alive. Montresor accomplishes secretly killing Fortunato because Montresor is quick on his feet, he very sly with how he “prepares” his victim, and he has a motive which makes him determined to get revenge.
While dialogue is consistent to the characters, the overall script is heavily dialogued. Avoid question and answer type of scenes (page 60). Avoid clichés, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Avoid repeating dialogue or jokes about Lamb having to jump off the balcony/building (in the opening). However, there’s room to elevate some witty one-liners for both Owen and Lamb.
The theme of this story is that when something bad happens you need to talk about it. It can trigger more and more problems if you don’t get it off your chest. When you keep the secret to yourself it builds up and eats away at you. Then it makes you angrier about the problem. By not telling anyone it doesn’t help the problem any.
In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” the characters are in a deep conversation about love. Throughout the conversation there are many disagreements among the four friends, which is understandable due to the different backgrounds of each character. As the title suggests, this story is constructed almost entirely from dialogue. At the beginning of the story the narrator, Nick, explains what is going on and only interrupts to describe certain actions. As the story continues Nick mentions the changing sunlight implying the length of the conversation. As the sun sets and the liquor is gone, the conversation about what love is becomes more confusing and the friends become more irritable. Even though the love discussion went on for a while the four friends never came to a conclusion, or even close for that matter. Drinking also becomes a motif in Carver’s “What We Talk About W...
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
slips out these cheat notes—me and Clarence here was sittin’ right behind him and T.J. and seen the whole thing.Stacey was sittin’ right side of T.J. and when he seen them notes, he motioned T.J. to put ’em away. At first T.J. wouldn’t do it, but then he seen Miz Logan startin’ toward ’em and he slipped Stacey the notes. Well, Stacey didn’t see Miz Logan comin’ when he took them notes, and by the time he saw her it was too late to get rid of ’em. Wasn’t nothin’ Miz Logan could do but whip him. Failed him too.” On top of being humiliated in front of his class since it was his mom that was whipping him, Stacey got failed since he was “cheating”. T.J. knew that the Logan kids would not go to the Wallace store so he went there to hide because Stacey was furious. In the text it states, “Stacey tore across the Wallace yard and, leaping high like a forest fox, fell upon T.J., knocking him down. The two boys rolled toward the road, each trying to keep the other’s back pinned to the ground, but then Stacey, who was stronger, gained the advantage and T.J., finding that he could not budge him, cried, “Hey, wait a minute, man, let me explain—” Stacey did not let him finish. Jumping up, he pulled T.J. up too and hit him squarely in the face.” T.J got Stacey so angry that he punched him, shortly after Mr. Morrisson caught them there and told the Logan kids to get into his wagon and gave Stacey a choice. Tell his mother and face the consequences, or not telling his mother and knowing
An issue which is mentioned throughout the story is the concept of “Ignorance is bliss”, which is an old cliche meaning what we don’t know can’t hurt us. While massaging his naked female neighbor’s body, the narrator is asked if he’s going to tell his mother. No, he answers. “So you even know that certain things are better left unsaid! You really are a devil” (Mahfouz, 13). The neighbor makes the obvious point that sometimes there are things that don’t have to be repeated, for the benefit of all the parties involved. Some might argue that the Truth will always come out, and by hiding it someone will end up being affected by it much more later on. But that is only if the information does get repeated. Knowledge doesn’t always have to be repeated, as was shown by our narrator and his neighbor. If the narrator had told his mother, would any of the parties benefit from this knowledge?
Looking through old photos my mom has of me I find one that makes me grin. I am currently paddling on my kayak as the picture is being taken and am wearing old gym shorts, a t-shirt, and a cap. I have a smile on my face as my little chihuahua is in front of me admiring the view. Trees are seen towering over me on each side of the clear river as I am getting ready to embark on a mini journey.