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This group is for discussing dialogue in our books and The Outsiders.

In my book, The Sword of Summer Magnus uses a lot of sarcasm in his dialogue which gives you the feeling that he is sort of criticizing kind of guy.

Dialogue is based or depends on 2 things, what ones says and how they say it. What one says helps dialogue because if someone is usually mean and they say something nice then they change the book or themselves.How they say it helps dialogue because they can say it in a mean way, nice way or a different way then whay you think.

In my book, The House of Hades Leo uses sarcasm and jokes as his thing to calm him down sometimes it works other times it goes wrong. Annabeth uses her smart talk to help her, when it works she and her friends end up in a battle.

In my book Slumber Party, Celeste talks like she has no words to say, talks shy, or talks like someone is a round her listening when they are not suppose to(scared). For example its says,'"I.... can't,"'Celeste replied hesitantly." In this example it shows that she has no words to say or is scared of something/someone.

Sarcasm is a great example of affecting dialouge. For example "Thanks" can be said two ways, "Thanks so much!" She squealed, or "Thanks, sooooo muuch" she mumbled. One is happy and real while the other is sarcastic, mean, and fake.

In the book After Ever After the two main characters are very sarcastic to each other. This makes it hard for the reader to know were the plot is going. Also the situation doesn't help the context. So this makes reading the story somewhat hard.

In my book Endure Astley's mother is describing her son and when she is done she spits out the word "son" like its a disgusting and regretable word to say. This shows disgust and or anger held against her son. The surrounding situation also helped the dialouge.

The way that one says dialogue is the tone of the character. What the character says reflects that character's personality

Deborah wrote: "In my book Entice the mother is describing her son and when she is done she spits out the word son like its a discrace." Whose mom Deborah is it Zara's mom or some else?

In my book The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, Mr. Collum emphasized the part about John Cole being almost unnoticed. This means that Mr. Collum does not like children much.

I think that dialogue greatly affected my book. One of the main villainsThe Sword of Summer of the book used his tone and the way he talked to trick Magnus into doing what he wanted.

In my book Slumber Party, 2 character don't like each other but are pretending in front of their friend. For example, '"Great, Rachael said brightly, casting her a microsecond glance that communicated a reservoir of hate."' This means that Rachael hates, or dislikes Lora for her liking the boy she likes, so she acts nice when he is around and mean when he isn't.

In my book, The house of Hades in the end of the book Renya one of the people from the roman camp says that Percy would have never survived Tartarus without Annabeth's help. Percy didn't take it as serious because they were having fun. But when the book ended Percy and Annabeth were on the deck. Both of them got sad because the stars reminded them of Bob the Titan who helped them through the body of Tartarus god of the pit. There voice changes and Percy says to the stars, "Bob says hello." and that is how it ended.

In my book Endure Zara seems to use sarcasm a lot lately. Since she is in a very serious situation she tries to avoid it by joking around, i.e sarcasm. Her dialouge reveals her character around this time of the book because of this

In my book Shaddows on the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow, I noticed that Wendy, the main character's friend is upset when she says,"That's awful'she complained."(53). Her friend Jill was at the moment showing her a song that was scaring an animal. Although it is pretty obvious she is annoyed, the part where the author adds in "she complained.", tells the reader that she is not being sarcastic or faking. This helps the reader know that Wendy is a caring character and doesn't want anyone to get hurt.

Rise of Empire In this book a wizard says to a soldier, "Do you like your human form." The soldier says what? He says, " If you do not listen to me I will have you on all fours in a second". This dialogue sort of is threatening and the beginning of it is kind of ominous.

In my book Slumber Party, I had noticed that when Lara said,"'Hello' she said 'oldest and best friends.'" i think that she was being sarcastic and still thinks her friend is not her "oldest" friend. I think she said that only because she is trying to be nice so that Rachael can call off the party. Also she said,"'Fine with me,' Lara shrugged, her heart sinking." Lara thought her plan would have worked and Rachael would have called off the party, but she didn't and know she has to go when 2 people like the same guy.

In my book, Endure, I feel the part where Nick explains he thinks even after the Pixies took away Astley's queen's powers, they still want Astley to join them. Issie says in response "Oh yeah, changing his queen's a good way to do that." and the describes her afterwards "[pulling] her knees to her chest and [rolling] her eyes." (152). This shows she meant to be sarcastic and thinks that Nick was obviously wrong.

Melina wrote: "Deborah wrote: "In my book Endure the mother is describing her son and when she is done she spits out the word son like its a discrace." Whose mom Deborah is it Zara's mom or some else?" Astley's mom, sorry for the confusion. The mothers dialouge is so big it makes her seem like a character everyone revolves around and directs their problems to.

In my book, The Art of Keeping Cool the author uses dialogue. Robert's mom is starting to get really worried Robert's dad who is currently fighting in World War II. In the book there was a recent clash between the germans and americans. The germans sunk an american ship. Robert's mom got scared that Robert's dad was on that ship. She yelled at Robert's grandpa to tell her if he was on the ship. This shows dialogue.

In my book dialogue is used a lot when the 2 main characters are lying.

In my book tone greatly impacts the meaning of dialogue.

Patrick how do you know they are lying, do they give clues or do they directly say it.

In the Outsiders, I think that each character has a different way of saying things, as well as what they say. This shapes each character's personality. For example, Ponyboy is able to say truly meaningful things in normal conversations, while most of the other members of the gang aren't able to say things like that.

In my book The Blood of Olympus, Leo puts away the humor and sarcasm so he can go back with Calypso. The girl he meet and fell in love with her.

In my book Day 21[Part of a series], I just started it so not much has happened but based on the last book, there will be an increase in conflict and a decrease in dialogue between Clarke and Wells (Used to date)

In a book that I read recently, I'll Be There, Sam says things about himself in a way that barely reveals anything about his life. The other characters feel like they know a lot about him, when in fact they know next to nothing about him.

Unfortunatly, in my book lately dialouge hasn't really played a huge part in the book like visual description does. If anyone agrees respond to what im about to say next or retaliate. The way dialouge is written has everything to do with how its interpreted. Like how the actual words not the after "she mumbled".

In the outsiders you can see the tension between Darry and Pony through the dialogue of the story. Darry lashes out at Pony boy saying, "you don't ever think...not at home or anywhere when it counts. You must think at school with all those goo grades you bring home"(13). This isn't an example of a conversation because Darry barely let Pony talk which we can also tell from the dialogue. Through the dialogue of the story Darry is harsh and can't keep in control.

My book I'm reading for pearl time has a lot of dialogue I think that you can see dialogue more in books written in third person (like my own) because the book isn't consumed in the readers thoughts. One of the example from Shadows on the Sea is"Quarry shifted in his seat. "Jill would you like to go to the clambake with me"(98). When reading this I could tell that Quarry really cares for Jill or else he wouldn't be nervous. When Quarry does the slightest thing like shifting in his seat I could tell he was uneasy and a little scared or unsure of himself. Dialogue in shadows of the Sea has told me a lot about the character and why they act like they do.

Deborah wrote: "Unfortunatly, in my book lately dialouge hasn't really played a huge part in the book like visual description does. If anyone agrees respond to what im about to say next or retaliate. The way dialo..."

So, I'm not exactly retaliating, but I do disagree. I think that in dialogue, the words and the tone both matter. I also don't really think that interpretation has much to do with dialogue.

My book is starting to have more dialogue between Clarke and Bellamy because they are looking for Octavia,(Bellamy's Sister) and so in a way they are "forced" to talk to each other

What book are you talking about Ilanis?

In my bookA Dog on His Own the dog is the narrator, but yet when the dog is talking in the book it put quotation marks, like he is a person. Do they put quotation marks on thoughts?

Is the dog actually talking(like a non-realistic world type thing), or is it his thoughts?

Sometimes its him actually talking to other dogs but other times its his thoughts and they put quotation marks around both of what I just explained.

If it is the dog's exact thoughts, then it can be in quotes. Same with him talking. For example, if the dog is "writing" exactly what he was thinking at that moment, it might be in quotation marks.

okay thanks, I was just confused about this because I never saw this happen in other books.

In Wonder a book that I have previously read I can distinctively remember the dialogue. Every piece meant a lot. R.J Palacio does this because of the switches of point of view constantly. That makes it very hard to have dialogue because the current story tellers thoughts are taking up a large amount of the chapter. Anyway the dialogue in this book tells you about the character, the story world and you can also see the tone and mood sometimes.

In Paperboy a book I read in 5th and 6th grade, I remember all the dialogue because it is was written in a different way then almost all book. They don't put quotation marks around where the characters speak. The problem with this is that you can never tell who is speaking or when they are speaking. It gets confusing.

Gabi wrote: "In Wonder a book that I have previously read I can distinctively remember the dialogue. Every piece meant a lot. R.J Palacio does this because of the switches of point of view constantly. That make..."

First of all, I LOVE THAT BOOK!!! Second of all, I completely agree with you. Dialogue is only in the book from time to time, but it plays a huge role. The character that is telling the story at a certain point thinks very hard about what they are going to say, explains references thoroughly, and speaks to their personality. The dialogue shows relationships between characters as well. R.J Palacio does a great job of using tone in the dialogue and showing character through dialogue from what they say and how the say it.

Kayle wrote: "In Paperboy a book I read in 5th and 6th grade, I remember all the dialogue because it is was written in a different way then almost all book. They don't put quotation marks around ..."

I haven't read that book, but how can you tell whether or not it is dialogue?

Emma wrote: "Kayle wrote: "In Paperboy a book I read in 5th and 6th grade, I remember all the dialogue because it is was written in a different way then almost all book. They don't put quotation..."

I can tell by the way they say it.(tone) You should read the book if you like sweet and sort of heart breaking stories.

*SPOILERS dont read if you want to read Endure * In my book Endure the situation added to the dialouge of the villian. When Astley turns on the group Zara is confused and thinking about how and why she even trusted him. The other pixie king Frank says that its stupid that she is think by saying she is in a jerkey way. Following up, Astley says "She always thinking." Giving the situation my mind autimatically thought he spoke with more or less a disguisted tone, without any signal towards it. This to me proves that the situation matters most when talking about dialouge.

Kayle, that sounds like a really cool book. Isn't it weird how sometimes the way that a character says dialogue can tell you exactly which character is speaking?

It is weird Emma, I never thought a book or an author can do such a thing. I guess now I know an author can design his/her book in any way she can.

In my book, Sherlock Holmes, dialogue is the main way that I, as a reader, find out about character's relationships with one another and their personalities.

In my book A Dog on His Own, one of the character's(a dog) named Peppy doesn't know much about the outside world until he was brought to the pound by mistake, because of this mistake Peppy has many questions and has a tone no other book I read had.He is also a peppy kind of dog, hint his name.

*SPOILERS DON"T READ IF YOU WANT TO READ THE BOOK* In my book, City of Fallen Angels, the dialogue is all about how they fight these demons and how they train but there is one character who is a vampire he is usually not himself he is a little bit serious than in the first book. His name is Simon and he gave up the humor because right no he is the only vampire who can walk in the daylight. The other vampires want to kill him but they can't he has this mark on his forehead called the Mark of Cain. The main character Clary has changed because she usually went around with Simon but now that she is a shadowhunter she trains like Jace her boyfriend.