Rick By Ronald Benioff Summary

The simple and plainspoken style makes it easier for the reader to receive the loud message. The word choice is simple, but the powerful story is unaffected. The tone is passionate and the author is emotionally invested. However, the book is not very chronologically organized skips from childhood to teen and back to

First off there is a lot of believable dialogue considering the characters in the story are teenagers. I can say there is believable dialogue because of the cursing or going to curse. For example on page 7 it states,” Yeah like a baby’s ass.” This shows believable dialogue by him cursing which

Whenever he had a part where he felt his relationship was in trouble, he would change his voice to the universal “guy going through relationship crisis” voice. You would here is voice quake and soften when his relationship seemed to be at stake. The one part where I think he could have done better is when he first finds out that his girlfriend is cheating on him with a high school student. He seemed too soft spoken when confronting Agnes and Chuck. If I found out my girlfriend was cheating on me with some square I would have been furious and not so passive in voice in the situation. I understand that his script made him speak like that, but I think he definitely could have put a whole lot more anger in his voice in that

Though all the members of the team are important characters, Joe Rantz is undoubtedly the novel’s protagonist. Trace Joe’s character development from his childhood to his gold- medal finish in Berlin. How does Joe grow as a character? What does he learn about himself and the world, and in what ways does he change?

The narrator is a young successful teacher and a family man who is devoted to his family. However, he can not take his mind off young high school boys in

Jerry seems to be a typical freshman, in a period of experimentation—trying out for the team, dreaming about girls, reading “girlie magazines,” but he also appears to be a dazed and confused one. He is “stunned by his mother’s recent death and by the way his father sleepwalks through life.”

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition, inspired, and success achieved- Helen Keller. By using the dialogue, an author can show you how their characters develop, whether they go from being horrible and mean to a respectable person, or vise versa. You get to know the conversations and listen to each of them talk, creating a voice for each one as you continue the story. The authors in “Lemon Tree Billiards House” and The House of the Scorpion use dialogue to develop their characters and the mood of their stories in the same way.

Chris Givens was a middle school boy and he loved to play baseball. Chris lived and breathed baseball. He would watch every game he could. Also, the only sport he played was baseball so he was the best at it. However, there was one problem for Chris. He was not one the most popular kids. Only the most popular kids were picked onto the school's baseball team. Chris had tried to act cool and even hang out with cool kids, but it never worked out. Even though Chris was not like everyone on the baseball team he is determined to be the first kid to make the baseball who wasn’t popular.

Rick Moody 's short story "Boys" is written with a distinct style. The author uses a form of a stream of consciousness to convey the purpose at hand, which encompasses writing as if without hesitation or editing - whatever came to Moody’s thoughts, he transferred to text. There was also a substantial use of the word “boys”, placing emphasis on the central meaning of the story. The style is thoroughly descriptive and fails to leave any details of the boys ' lives out. This quality donates a sense of reality and creates a bond between the reader and the characters. The tone of the story comes of as particularly unbiased and serious, as if the author were just stating purely factual information. As events become more somber in the boys ' lives, the author approaches a more sympathetic tone. The boys were supposed to be kids, fooling around playing games and living a care-free childhood, but these boys found themselves in scenarios no boy or child should ever encompass.

Nancy Farmer creates fascinating dialogue to introduce the mood and the characters. In the book the author uses a lot of dialogue to move the events along and introduce feelings to the reader. For instance, when Matt, the main character, and Matt’s friend, see a man lying on the ground and say to each other, “‘Can’t we-can’t we help him?’ faltered Matt.

In “How to Write a Memoir” William Zinsser gives very detailed and important advice to writers interested in writing a memoir. He gives the specific advice of “Be yourself,” “Speak Freely,” and “Think Small” (Zinsser, 2, 4, 6). These tips advise writers to not only think about what they want to say in their story but also how they want to tell their story. Many memoir authors choose to follow this advice and write their story using these points, but many do not. In the memoir “A Summer Life”, Gary Soto follows Zinsser’s writing advice through his use of writing from the point of view of a young child, speaking freely about his early life events, and writing about his life in small structure chapters.

Nancy Farmer creates fascinating dialogue to introduce the mood and the characters. In the book the author uses a lot of dialogue to move the story along and introduce feelings to the reader. An example when Matt, the main character, and Matt’s friend, see a man lying on the ground and say to each other, “‘Can’t we-can’t we help him?’ faltered Matt.

In addition, this book succeeds in terms of depicting real life situations to young children. As presented in the story, Reed’s father lost his job; thus, causing him to move back in with

Wes Moore establishes his writing style quickly with an intriguingly dictated introduction. Every word carefully chosen to lay out how he came across this story. How intricately the story intersects not only his life but the life of a man with too many similarities to Wes including sharing his name. Wes Moore introduces the readers into his world with the utmost respect for the people in this intense anecdote while making sure that respect translates into interest and concern for the people, not boredom.

When reading this autobiography it reminded me of my adolescent years; I remember feeling like I knew all there was to being a grown up, I also felt like my parents didn’t know much because they didn’t go to college. I strongly feel like they could have always done more than they were doing. Upon reading this, I felt as though I was reading Richard Rodriguez’s journal and he was a very unhappy kid living in the ghetto. He was also embarrassed of his own life and he seemed unhappy in his own skin... “(Ways of reading pg.339) A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that success was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student”.