Please complete your reading of Beloved and prepare to discuss
Work on a first draft of a creative piece for the Somers Project
Saturday, November 27, 2010
2002 Free Response: collaboration on de Botton's essay notes
Comedic:
Tone: AWKWARD!!!!!!!! Uncomfortable!!!
Embarrassing!
Narrator: Sarcasm!!!! Narrator has an opinion
Reference to the daughter's cleavage
Light bulbs
Dad looking at world horizontally
"Achhooooo" daughter mocking dad’s sneeze
Dad is described as cruise ship.. flailing arms
Conversation between four of them…
Boyfriend faded away
Disconnect among each other
Parents are either fighting, mom speaks disparagingly of husband’s family
Exaggeration: HYPERBOLE!!!!!
PARALLELISM between mother and father
Alain de Botton employs various techniques to produce a comic effect in Kiss and Tell. The scene begins with a couple at the theater on a date. It is evident at the onset of the piece that a seemingly pleasant evening will turn into a farcical one with the girl’s first line indicating her parents are in the theater as well. De Botton is clear to use elements such as hyperbole, point of view, and literary allusion to advance the comical scene in his text.
De Botton uses point of view in a number of ways throughout the piece. Through the use of dialogue, for example, the point of view of the narrator and characters involved in the piece elucidate a comical distress. This is evident in line 17 when the female character, Isabel states, “with any luck, they’ll be too busy arguing to glance up.” This line quickly offsets the potentially awkward situation the couple may encounter by displacing the focus on her parents’ flaws. Additionally,
Tone: AWKWARD!!!!!!!! Uncomfortable!!!
Embarrassing!
Narrator: Sarcasm!!!! Narrator has an opinion
Reference to the daughter's cleavage
Light bulbs
Dad looking at world horizontally
"Achhooooo" daughter mocking dad’s sneeze
Dad is described as cruise ship.. flailing arms
Conversation between four of them…
Boyfriend faded away
Disconnect among each other
Parents are either fighting, mom speaks disparagingly of husband’s family
Exaggeration: HYPERBOLE!!!!!
PARALLELISM between mother and father
Alain de Botton employs various techniques to produce a comic effect in Kiss and Tell. The scene begins with a couple at the theater on a date. It is evident at the onset of the piece that a seemingly pleasant evening will turn into a farcical one with the girl’s first line indicating her parents are in the theater as well. De Botton is clear to use elements such as hyperbole, point of view, and literary allusion to advance the comical scene in his text.
De Botton uses point of view in a number of ways throughout the piece. Through the use of dialogue, for example, the point of view of the narrator and characters involved in the piece elucidate a comical distress. This is evident in line 17 when the female character, Isabel states, “with any luck, they’ll be too busy arguing to glance up.” This line quickly offsets the potentially awkward situation the couple may encounter by displacing the focus on her parents’ flaws. Additionally,
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