After Pudge and the Colonel enter the gym, they realize that Professor Hyde, who they thought had died, is there, so Pudge says,
“I tapped the Colonel on the shoulder and said, "Hyde's here," and the Colonel said, "Oh shit," and I said "What?" and he said, "Where's Alaska?" and I said, "No," and he said, "Pudge is she here or not?" and then we both stood up and scanned the faces in the gym.
The Eagle walked up to the podium and said, "Is everyone here?"
"No," I said to him. "Alaska isn't here."
The Eagle looked down, "Is everyone else here?"
“Alaska isn't here!"
"Okay, Miles. Thank you."
"We can't start without Alaska."
The Eagle looked at me. He was crying, noiselessly. Tears just rolled from his eyes to his chin and then fell onto his corduroy pants. He stared at me, but it was not the Look of Doom. His eyes blinking the tears down his face, the Eagle looked, for all the world, sorry.
"Please sir," I said. "Can we please wait for Alaska?" I felt all of them staring at us, trying to understand what I now knew but didn’t quite believe.
The Eagle looked down and bit his lower lip, "Last night, Alaska Young was in a terrible accident." His tears came faster then. "And she was killed. Alaska has passed away." (Green, page 138 and 139).
Here, the author uses dialogue to create suspense and reveal the climax of the story. As the reader, I was at the edge of my seat and when I finally find out that Alaska had died, I was in shock. This was very similar to the reaction that the characters in the book had and the author’s use of diction and dialogue, made it feel like you were there, in Culver Creek’s gym with the rest of the characters.
Hi Erin, for your Literary Blog Assignment #3 I felt your quote was too long. I lost interest in reading it because you told a part of the story that I do not understand. I feel if you wrote a shorter quote that does not require information on past events it would have been more effective. I thought your analysis was very well written and descriptive however it did not do much justice as I did not fully understand what you were analyzing. Next time I would recommend choosing a shorter quote that makes a direct connection to the character or book that people who have not read the book can still understand.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Chase. I enjoyed reading your blog today because I found your book interesting. One thing I noticed was one your 3rd assignment you used a quote that was way to long.It was a good quote but you should have shortened it or not used the hole thing.It should have been no more then a few sentences.For you having a long quote made it look like you had a big answer but your answer was shorter then your quote.Next time just make sure its not so long. All and all I liked your blog and I will probably try to find this book for myself to read.