The Dialogues Of Charles Dickens And James Joyce

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Both Charles Dickens and James Joyce included dialogues in their stories. Dialogue is important because it shows the character's personality, emotions, and actions. A character’s word tells us much about the character’s social/cultural background, education and emotional/psychological state. The first story, Oliver Twist, is about a starving boy being treated unfairly. The second story, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is about a sad boy being annoyed, uncomfortable. And bullied. These two stories will help us how dialogues are important in stories, and how they help us find clues about how the characters feel. In Oliver Twist, the author, Charles Dickens, included dialogues in the story. The first character I chose was Oliver. …show more content…

The first character I chose was Stephen. Stephen can be described as a respectful, disciplined, quiet, and sad young man. By reading the story, I could see, with the help of the dialogues, that Stephen was sad and disappointed. For example, when Fleming asked, “What’s up? Have you a pain or what’s up with you?” , and Stephen answered, “I don’t know”. This example shows us that even other people could notice how sad he was. Another example is when Fleming questioned, “Sick in your breadbasket because your face looks white. It will go away.” And Stephen said, “ Oh yes”. This example showed us that Stephen didn’t want people to know how he felt; he wanted to keep his emotions private. As you can see, none of the clues that I am getting was mentioned in the story, but I could get the hint because the author used dialogues. The second character I chose was Wells. Wells can be described as a cold-hearted, rude, and mean young man; the way he talked to Stephen, and the way he treated him is awfully wrong. It looks like he thinks that he is superior to the other characters in the story. For example, when he asked Stephen if he kissed his mother before he went to bed, and Stephen answered no, he made fun of him. Wells turned to the other fellows and said, “O, I say, here’s a fellow says he kisses his mother every night before he goes to bed.” Stephen quicky yelled, “ I do not”. Wells said, “ O, I say, here’s a fellow says he doesn’t kiss his mother before he goes to bed. This example shows that Wells was trying to annoy Stephen, and whatever the answer was he just wanted to make Stephen feel bad about himself and

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