“As the Hardys watched in horror, he emptied half the clip point-blank into the windshield.” The setting of the Hardy Boys is Bayport, NY and London, England. The two main characters are Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy. Their primary conflict is a Terrorist group called the Assassins. In the book Franklin W. Dixon uses description and dialogue to make you feel as if you are in the scene.
“‘Your not leaving’ the government man said turning in his seat. ‘Get that clear.’ As the Hardys watched in horror, he emptied half the clip point-blank into their windshield.” Page 37.This quote shows that there is dialogue because the “Gray Man” is talking to the Hardy Brothers. This quote also has description because Dixon described the expression on the Hardy’s
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The timer ripped free ‘Everybody down!’ The pyramid disintegrated beneath him.Frank sprinting to the door. ‘Get behind the pillar! Hands over ears!’ Was it his imagination, or were the beeps growing louder? He slapped the explosive-coated detonator on the doorknob. Was it enough plastique? Or too much? ‘How much time?’ Joe asked, peering around the pillar.Frank was already running back. ‘None.’ Behind him the door erupted!” Page 130-131. This shows that there is dialogue because Frank is shouting orders to everyone so they can get out of the room before it blows up. Also it shows description because he is describing the intense action in the story.
There is an exception a few times, where there is no dialogue in, before, or after the action/description. However, there is dialogue in, before, or after the action/description most of the time.
Franklin W. Dixon uses dialogue along with description to have you feel like you are in the action. This connects to real life because people in the FBI talk about the action before, during, and after the investigation. This leaves the readers thinking if there was no dialogue or no description would the action be different or change? While having this question readers may also ask would this change it at
S.E Hinton the author of The Outsiders wrote an astounding book that remains popular to this day, a story that has influenced people for almost fifty years and will continue to be a classic for years to come. We follow ponyboy a 14 year old boy from Oklahoma, who lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop and their “gang” the greasers as they deal with rumbles, run ins with the “fuzz”, the Socs, and the realization that problems occur no matter who you are.. In the city that they call home the division between two “ gangs” the Socs who live on the west side and the Greasers who live on the east is the most problematic conflict in the story . Although the two groups don’t seem to get along, they soon discover that they are more alike than
In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, the author uses the dialogue throughout the story to tell how the characters feel about who they're with, their surroundings, and how they respect the other characters. In this book, those are quite important.
Dialogue in a story can really make you fully understand the characters and everything else about the story differently in a better way. The story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and the book Canyons by Gary Paulsen use dialogue in their stories. Walter Dean Myers uses dialogue in his story to make you understand the characters a little bit more and Gary Paulsen uses dialogue to make you understand the tone of the story a little bit better.
Dialogue is often used to advance or develop the plot of a literary text. When a character speaks, the reader gains an insight into that character’s motives or intentions. This has the potential to introduce or resolve conflicts, both of which propel the plot onward. Interactions between characters can also be significant to them or character development. An example of this can be found in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. When the prisoners are waiting to enter the showers, Elie’s father tells his son, “’Leave me… I can’t go on anymore… Have pity on me… I’ll wait here until we can go into the showers… You’ll come and get me’”(105). This example of dialogue introduces the conflict of Elie’s father becoming ill, eventually
The plot of The Bean Trees moves along at a slow, step by step process, which allows the reader to grasp the critical points of the novel. The novel uses both dialogue and narrative. The difference between the two varies tremendously and assists in the development not only of the plot but the characters are well. Dialogue is basically the conversation that stems from the interaction among the characters. While narrative provides the information needed to proceed and gain understanding of the events that the dialogue is leading up to.
The two brothers want to fight the Nazis like their father is doing in Africa but they’re obviously underage. The two brothers are home alone the majority of the time since their mom works at the munitions factory, this leads them to spend hours exploring the outdoors. Whilst they're playing make-believe war, the young boys step foot on a military base. They are confronted by soldiers who seem very secretive, the Braun siblings think that the military base is actually occupied by Nazis. This piqued their curiosity even more so they try to gain more intel, they start talking to Jack’s boss, the journalist and WWI ex-German soldier. After gaining more information about the Camp they decide to sneak into it. When they are laying on the floor they get caught by a soldier. The brothers are brought in the camp and they have to sign a contract to never disclose any information about Camp X. The boys meet to very important figures in the war, Big Bill and Little
In the novel Canyons by Gary Paulsen, the author use dialogue to describe how the characters feel and to show upcoming events in the novel. An example is when Greg was talking with his mother and said “yes. He is. I can’t believe what he
In 1967, a 17-year-old author S.E Hinton, published her first novel from a point of view of a teenage boy named Ponyboy in The Outsiders. The story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1966. The book introduces two gangs, the Greasers and the Socials. The Greasers are “kids from the poor side or East Side of town and the Socials or Socs are the rich kids from West-side.” (Hinton pg10).
Vince Luca, a young man at the age of seventeen, has an outlook on life like any seventeen-year-old would. His family the Lucas, have a more interesting life than any modern day family. Vince has no interest in the families vending machine business. The Vending Machine Bros Ltd a name the family has stuck with for years turns out to them being a part of the Mob. Vince and his mother have no part in this Mob family business, but older brother Tommy does. Vince would rather be a good Samaritan than a cold blooded killer and criminal. He attends high school at Jefferson, a high school on the south side of Satan Island. A girl by the name of Angela O’Bannon had interest in this young man Vince and he has the same feeling as well. Unfortunately, on a date with her in discovers an unconscious man in his trunk. Angela is suddenly turned off about this Vince guy and whatever is in his trunk and doesn’t want nothing more with him.
When the boys where on the island they said and did a lot of bad stuff like when the hunters yelled, ‘‘‘right up her ass’’’(Golding 123). When the boys say this they are showing how they where becoming more like savages. During the Stanford prison the guards told the inmates they could not leave one of them had Psychological breakdown and start to cry continuously. The guards also lost their Innocence by making the prisoners turn on each other by make a privileged cell and a bad cell and they would switch the prisoners every three ours this cussed the leaders of the prisoners to think there snitches (http://www.prisonexp.org) just like how jack thought the twins where hiding
In this video, Armistad Clip, its recreates what happened to the African Americans when they were kidnapped from their homes and forced into slavery. At the beginning of the video it shown a full grown African man, along with others men, women, and children, being capture by their own African peoples and boarded onto ships to be transported. The Africans slave traders were given arms such as guns in exchange for capturing Africans. It also shows of violence being used such as whipping, beating, chaining the Africans in rows on the floor or on shelves, lack of spaces and sufficient shelter, throwing dead bodies and sick peoples into the sea, forcing women into sexual intercourse with the white men, and lack of food. The video also shows how
The main characters are 15-year-old Benny, his friend, Nix, and his much older brother, Tom. Tom is a bounty hunter, a zombie hunter, and is one of the few people to leave town in his work.
dialogue goes with setting the dialogue wont make sense from a different setting than they are talking about. Character can be a apart of it based on actions, speech, and looks. Others may be movement and positioning of the camera would help the viewer understand more of what is going on or display emotion. Than finally the scene placement; if it is not in chronological order it wont make
Not only can the dialogue bring life to the story, but it can tell the story itself, as seen in many instances in which Holmes has wrapped up another mystery. Most cases are concluded with a recollection of events and revealing hints that only Holmes knew of, presented almost conversationally from Holmes to Watson. With his first-person account of the mystery, Doyle uses Holmes to clarify any remaining confusion or questions that linger in readers’ minds as the chapter ends. While it is repetitive after several cases, granting Holmes with such large chunks of dialogue eliminates the need for boring, lengthy straight-forward narration. A good example of the use of retelling in dialogue in place for narration can be found in The Red-Headed League. A combination of complex writing and sophisticated vocabulary also follow the genius detectives’ mysteries and help to represent his intelligence through Doyle’s skillful work. Each story is written with extensive vocabulary as well as depth, which also alludes/attributes to Holmes himself. Therefore, Doyle was careful to ensure that the professional nature of Holmes was also conveyed
Not only can the dialogue bring life to the story, but it can tell the story itself, as seen in many instances in which Holmes has wrapped up another mystery. Most cases are concluded with a recollection of events and revealing hints that only Holmes knew of, presented almost conversationally from Holmes to Watson. With his first-person account of the mystery, Doyle uses Holmes to clarify any remaining confusion or questions that linger in readers’ minds as the chapter ends. While it is repetitive after several cases, granting Holmes with such large chunks of dialogue eliminates the need for boring, lengthy straightforward narration. A combination of complex writing and sophisticated vocabulary also follow the genius detectives’ mysteries and help to represent his intelligence through Doyle’s skillful work. Each story is written with extensive vocabulary as well as depth, which also alludes/attributes to Holmes himself. Therefore, Doyle was careful to ensure that the professional nature of Holmes was also conveyed through Watson’s retellings. An excerpt of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle shows the use of vocabulary, stating,