New Moon Week of: 11.17.14

Prompt: How does dialogue help you understand the book better?
Pages Read: 261-441

This book has been such a pleasure to be reading for the past couple of weeks. Every time I start to read I always think it's boring, and then something really interesting happens. Jacob tells Bella that he is a werewolf, and now things aren't the same between them. One day, Jacob tells her that he will go cliff diving with her but he never showed up. So she decided to go in the water by herself, and she almost died. In the end, Jacob came and he saved her. Since she almost died, Alice had a vision that she was gone and she wanted to talk to Charlie. She found out that Bella was not dead, but she had other news as well. Edward also thought that Bella was dead, and he decided that he couldn't live with himself if she died. He wanted to kill him self, or have someone do it for him because he didn't like to know that she was gone. Alice and Bella decide to go on a trip to New York, where Edward was, and try to save him.

I believe that the dialogue in a story really does effect the way a story is read. If there was no dialogue in this book, I already would be reading something else. My favorite part of this book is probably the dialogue, and how it is used in a smart way. It gives the book a more interesting twist because you are able to see how a character acts, instead of someone narrating their life for them. Alice and Bella have a lot of serious conversations in the last 30 pages, and the dialogue gives it more detail and "spice" to the scenes. Without dialogue in a book, it would seem empty and unfinished because readers like to be in the story, and like to relate to the character that is most like them.

I think that dialogue does help me comprehend what's going on in the book better and it makes everything a lot easier. Third person is a good kind of point of view, and it is used in some poems or certain books, but I believe that a book needs dialogue. Dialogue, to me, is as important as conflicts and a plot are to a book. I think this because it helps a book grow and become more realistic. No dialogue is pretty much saying that someone is following the main character around all day telling their story. To me, that doesn't make much sense unless it's a fantasy poem or book. I just feel that dialogue is a huge part of every book!