Jerry Spinelli Dialogue

Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to help identify the characters in the book in many ways. Let’s start with dialogue: Most likely at the least 45% of this book is filled with dialogue, now I would show you every little detail but I won 't because that would take too long. So I’ll at least give a few or more examples: All dialogue of 1 page:
“Oh, some picker bush.” “What were you doing there?” “Hiding” “Hiding? Who from?” “Some kids” “Where?” “Somewhere out there. Some other town.” “Can I ask you a favor?” “Shoot” “Can we go somewhere and get some butterscotch Krimpets?” “Krimpets! You still hungry?” “For them, I am”. Ok, I’ll stop there even though it’s not the whole page of dialogue. Like I said, there

Whenever that happened. He’d just climb right back on and ride ‘er some more. Pretty soon c saw who was boss and gave up the fight.” Wow, the narrator just told a story but including another story in a very specific way so you couldn’t get confused or not understand. And there’s even more: “Why you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn’t tiptoe past a syllable without waking a vowel. Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel. To the old pitcher, they were like his own best knuckleball comes back to haunt him. In, out, up, down --- not even the pitcher, much much less the batter knew which way it would break. He kept swinging and missing.” So much detail like before, telling a story in a story, short but understandable, specific but easy to tell. This told so much about Grayson, I mean from reading it you now know he was a pitcher, that he couldn’t read, that he was smart but average. All that information given in those few sentences. Now actions were a different story, there may not have been a whole lot of it, but it was very self-explanatory when it happened, all the actions were