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Talking to Strangers studies miscommunication, interactions and assumptions people make when dealing with those that they don't know. To make his point, Gladwell covers a variety of events and issues, including the arrest and subsequent death of Sandra Bland; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's interactions with Adolf Hitler; the sex abuse scandal of Larry Nassar; the Cuban mole Ana ...
"We never know what is going on in people's lives," Dreizen says. "All we can do is put our hand out and hope they grab hold, but we cannot reach out to people on the basis that they will reply.
Show, don't tell is a narrative technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through actions, words, subtext, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description. [1]
Every school year, Leigh Botts writes a letter to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. In the 6th grade, Leigh's class has an assignment to write letters to their favorite authors. Leigh includes all the questions he was given as a numbered list. Mr. Henshaw writes back, teases Leigh for not doing research, and includes more questions for the boy ...
This entire novel is put forth as a letter or manuscript, the first-person narrative of the author/protagonist, written down and left for someone to find, to learn of what has befallen him Maria Semple: Where'd You Go, Bernadette: 2012 Emails, memos, transcripts, etc. Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin: 2003 Letters
The only problem is that the name of the girl might be a bit confusing—"Little Red Riding Hood" is an odd name. We don't want to have things in the summary that will make the reader feel that they don't know what's going on. So perhaps we should rephrase: "The girl, called Little Red Riding Hood because of the clothes she wears, is described ...
I think what I love most about it is that her gifts follow a few golden rules for giving a gift to someone you don't know very well: They're inexpensive, they don't require knowing someone's size ...
Good call - describing character histories and the like is really just a different flavor of plot summary, and the same logic works. I don't want to add another case study for that, and I don't think there's that much new advice to add, but I'll add some language making that point later today. Phil Sandifer 16:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)