Summary Of Calling Home By Jean Brandt
The essay, "Calling Home" by Jean Brandt starts off with Jean, Louis, Susan, and the grandmother all in the car singing Christmas music on the way to the mall. They are going to the mall to finish their last minute Christmas shopping. Once they get to the mall, Jean finds this button in the Snoopy section. From the moment she saw it, she fell in love with it. Her sister, Susan, told her to buy it, but when Jean saw the lines to checkout she went to go put the button back. Without even thinking about what she was doing, she put the button in her pocket. She thought that nobody watched her do it until a man walked up and asked her to empty her pockets. She instantly thought her sister could get her out of this mess, but before she knew it she
was handcuffed and put in jail. At the police station, she was to call her mother. She was really scared to confess to her parents about what she did because she felt sorry for them. When her parents came to pick her up from the station, she wasn't in trouble. Her mom said the police were wrong for putting a thirteen year old in jail. The situation that happened that day was never brought up again. The role of dialogue in this essay is to heighten the drama. The three ways to present dialogue are by quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing. Quoting puts drama in the dialogue with a combination of actual spoken words and descriptive speaker tags that surround them. Paraphrasing summarizes what was said instead of quoting the actual words. In the essay, paraphrasing is used when Jean asks Susan if the she should buy the button. Susan said it was cute and that Jean should buy it. Summarizing gives the gist without the detail. In the essay, summarizing is used when Jean states that she read her rights and questioned. It doesn't give us any details of what those rights might be. Dialogue can also be used to indicate exactly who someone is talking to. In the essay, for example, when the security guard asks Jean's sister, Susan, if she's related to her. This helps the audience know exactly who is speaking. The dialogue in this essay brings this essay to life. It puts it together with added excitement.
was handcuffed and put in jail. At the police station, she was to call her mother. She was really scared to confess to her parents about what she did because she felt sorry for them. When her parents came to pick her up from the station, she wasn't in trouble. Her mom said the police were wrong for putting a thirteen year old in jail. The situation that happened that day was never brought up again. The role of dialogue in this essay is to heighten the drama. The three ways to present dialogue are by quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing. Quoting puts drama in the dialogue with a combination of actual spoken words and descriptive speaker tags that surround them. Paraphrasing summarizes what was said instead of quoting the actual words. In the essay, paraphrasing is used when Jean asks Susan if the she should buy the button. Susan said it was cute and that Jean should buy it. Summarizing gives the gist without the detail. In the essay, summarizing is used when Jean states that she read her rights and questioned. It doesn't give us any details of what those rights might be. Dialogue can also be used to indicate exactly who someone is talking to. In the essay, for example, when the security guard asks Jean's sister, Susan, if she's related to her. This helps the audience know exactly who is speaking. The dialogue in this essay brings this essay to life. It puts it together with added excitement.