Dialogue
Understand writers' use of dialogue, analyze its impact, and explore various dialogue techniques employed in writing. Delve into how dialogue enhances storytelling and engages readers on a deeper level.
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Dialogue To understand the different ways that writers use dialogue To analyse the use of dialogue and consider its effect
Look at the this piece of text. How does it work as a piece of narrative? What is its effect on you as a reader? Read the extracts from critical texts and explore how they relate to this bit of text. Where your diamonds? Beloved searched Sethe s face. Diamonds? What would I be doing with diamonds? On your ears. Wish I did. I had some crystal once. A present from a lady I worked for. Tell me, said Beloved, smiling a wide happy smile. Tell me your diamonds.
Now look at this extract from Dracula which has everything extracted from it except the direct speech. What do you notice about the exchange between Harker and Dracula?: "Have you written since your first letter to our friend Mr. Peter Hawkins, or to any other? "Then write now, my young friend, write to our friend and to any other, and say, if it will please you, that you shall stay with me until a month from now." "Do you wish me to stay so long? "I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal. When your master, employer, what you will, engaged that someone should come on his behalf, it was understood that my needs only were to be consulted. I have not stinted. Is it not so? "I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things other than business in your letters. It will doubtless please your friends to know that you are well, and that you look forward to getting home to them. Is it not so?
What do you notice about the way Stoker has used dialogue to create suspense? When he had satisfied himself on these points of which he had spoken, and I had verified all as well as I could by the books available, he suddenly stood up and said, "Have you written since your first letter to our friend Mr. Peter Hawkins, or to any other?" It was with some bitterness in my heart that I answered that I had not, that as yet I had not seen any opportunity of sending letters to anybody. "Then write now, my young friend," he said, laying a heavy hand on my shoulder, "write to our friend and to any other, and say, if it will please you, that you shall stay with me until a month from now." "Do you wish me to stay so long?" I asked, for my heart grew cold at the thought. "I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal. When your master, employer, what you will, engaged that someone should come on his behalf, it was understood that my needs only were to be consulted. I have not stinted. Is it not so?" What could I do but bow acceptance? It was Mr. Hawkins' interest, not mine, and I had to think of him, not myself, and besides, while Count Dracula was speaking, there was that in his eyes and in his bearing which made me remember that I was a prisoner, and that if I wished it I could have no choice. The Count saw his victory in my bow, and his mastery in the trouble of my face, for he began at once to use them, but in his own smooth, resistless way. "I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things other than business in your letters. It will doubtless please your friends to know that you are well, and that you look forward to getting home to them. Is it not so?" As he spoke he handed me three sheets of note paper and three envelopes. They were all of the thinnest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red underlip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be more careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it.
http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/quotes.html http://www.shmoop.com/beloved/quotes.html https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/736076-beloved https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3165724-dracula Working in pairs, choose four examples of dialogue from both Dracula and Beloved, that show something significant about character/theme/language (don t get them all from the top!) Quote Bingo: who says it, to whom, what s the effect? (Don t reveal the text)
Beloved Page 42-43 Dracula Page 21 Compare the ways that the writers use dialogue to convey supernatural characters in these two extracts
1. Choose three short extracts from your set texts, showing different characters speaking. Choose contrasting ones, showing how the writer conveys that character s personality and relationship with other characters by using different techniques. 2. Present your extracts to other students in your class
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring. She was my best thing. You your best thing, Sethe. You are. Me? Me? I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be. No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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