Like the writers in the short story collection, Mori reveals his character's thoughts and feelings by providing dialogue, describing events, and showing how dialogue and action affect each other. Identify a character and quotation from one of the short stories and tell what the dialogue reveals about the character. Then identify a specific action and describe what that action reveals about the character. The story is "Abalone, Abalone, Abalone" by Toshio Mori.

Question

Like the writers in the short story collection, Mori reveals his character's thoughts and feelings by providing dialogue, describing events, and showing how dialogue and action affect each other. Identify a character and quotation from one of the short stories and tell what the dialogue reveals about the character. Then identify a specific action and describe what that action reveals about the character. The story is "Abalone, Abalone, Abalone" by Toshio Mori.

What do they mean when they are asking for dialogue and an action that reveals something about the character? How do these things reveal something about the character?

Answer 1

The assignment is asking you to find the places where you learned about the main character through what he thought and said and did. That is, the author did not tell you directly that the character was fascinated by the collection of abalone shells, for example; the author lets you come to that conclusion by means of the character's thoughts in the 2nd paragraph of the story.

So ...
1. Choose one character to focus on.
2. Choose the major traits and beliefs of that character (make a list of them).
3. Choose places in the story that led you to believe those major traits and beliefs are true of that character.
4. Overall, what do all these things say about this character?

http://peopleandstories.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/abalone-abalone-abalone.pdf

Answer 2

Thank you so much for your help!

Answer 3

You're very welcome. Go get an A!!

Answer 4

I hope so! I'm at home with a UTI and I really just wanted to get this over with...Thanks again!

Answer 5

Hello! Is there anything I can assist you with?

Answer 6

Which of the following explains the purpose of dialogue?

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2 points
It reveals a character’s personality
It shows the relationship between or among characters
It describes and explains events in the story
It indicates conflict within or between characters
All of the above

Answer 7

All of the above.

Answer 8

Which sentence includes the use of a metaphor?

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2 points
In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun
The cherry-trees are seas of bloom and soft perfume.
The water made a sound like kittens lapping.
The sky was as bright as a forest fire.

Answer 9

"In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun." This sentence includes a metaphor as it compares the yellow patch in the sky to a rug laid for the feet of the sun.