Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
speech function
speech as action
punctuation
dialogue purpose
intimidating
threatening
character relationships
Fracaswell Hyman
Mango Delight
In most narratives, characters will want to talk to each other. But why? What are they doing? In this activity, we look at how characters can try to influence each other through intimidation. We use a snippet from Fracaswell Hyman's Mango Delight as a model.