Prompt: Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text. Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence.
Pages: 217-451
The word choice in the story brings a negative connotation. The story includes words like violent, dishonestly, damage, and death. These words all have some type of negative connotation that brings the negative tone to the story. Violent has an aggressive outcome, and connotation. In the story there is many hardships the characters have to face together. Like all human nature people have different opinions so then depending on their opinion sides are built, and violence occurs between the two sides. In Allegiant there are two sides, the ones that respect Evelyn's choice and the Allegiant (that is what the group is called that does not obey Evelyn's choice). Then later the Allegiant have an uprising and they plan to battle the other side for power, they want life to go back to normal. The article states, "You know, the city is still on the verge of a revolution," she says, an the light turns blue. "The Bureau's whole reason for resetting our friends and families is to stop them from killing each other. if we stop the reset, the Allegiant will attack Evelyn, Evelyn will turn the death serum loose, and a lot of people will die." That shows us that there is violence, lots of it, and if it isn't stopped then everyone, even innocent people will die. Now that is very negative, and the word has a negative connotation.
Tris and Tobias are a couple, and there is lots of dishonesty in there relationship. Dishonesty has a negative connotation, this has a meaning on the text based upon that there is lots of people that are not honest. They do that to protect the ones they love. It makes the tone of the text more negative but also positive in a way because you are protecting the people that matter meaning that you must lie to another. DAMAGE, damage is a word that brings a very bad tone in the story. In Allegiant the people that genes are good are called genetically pure and the genes that are not great are genetically damaged. Tobias thought he was GP, but turns out it may seem like he is but when you look at his x-rays they are negative, meaning damaged. When he hears that he is GD he is devastated, if you are GD then you are just another person, not at all unique. All of these words bring on a negative meaning on the story. Then these, depending what you did wrong these might lead to death.
How specific incidents and dialogue reveal information about the characters is because that is their behavior and how they react to things, what there instincts based on the problem. In the story Tobias states, "I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself–when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything." That shows through Peters actions that he WANTS to forget this life, his life, his behavior shows that since he did not inject himself with the liquid, that will not let him forget. Christina states, "It's basically one of your parents against the other one, " Christina says. "Isn't there something that you can say to them that will stop them from trying to kill each other?" "Something I can say to them?" Tobias says. "Are you kidding? They don't listen to anyone. They don't do anything that doesn't directly benefit them" So there's nothing you can do. You're just going to let the city rip itself to shreds." Tobias is being very selfish. His parents have betrayed him lots of times, but he should be wiling to help save thousands of lives. He is being very selfish and already giving up on his parents. His behavior is unnecessary.I commented on Omar, Anthony, and Mia's Blog
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