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19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability

Mar 31, 2024

Delve into Blue's confident yet vulnerable character through poetic thoughts and internal conflicts. Explore the contrast with Red's communication style, emphasizing emotional depth. Uncover character growth through language patterns, accents, and symbolic imagery, culminating in emotional exposure.

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Character voices reflect growth and relationships through tone and style changes.

Using voice as a tool for character development showcases shifts in perspectives and narrative depth.

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Introduction

2min

Exploring Blue's Confidence and Vulnerability

10min

Character Perspectives and Vulnerability

9min

Exploring Character Growth Through Voice and Vulnerability

5min

Closing Remarks, Genre Magazine Promotion, Grocery Store and Infant Formula Advertisements

3min

On our third episode diving into Voice through the novella “This Is How You Lose The Time War,” we begin to explore the different voices that make up the two main characters in the story. Last episode we dove into Red’s voice– if you haven’t already, we recommend you listen to that first!

Today, we are doing a close read of Blue at the tea shop and how voice establishes character, growth, and vulnerability. How do the authors make Blue’s voice distinct from Red’s? Is it in the tone, the structure, or something else completely?

Thing of the Week: The Late Mrs. Willoughby By Claudia Gray

Homework: Write a short note from one of your characters to another about something important to them. Now rewrite it as a text message (change the format), as a letter that will be screened before it gets to them by an outsider (change the context), and as a final message they will get to send (change the stakes).

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Credits: Your hosts for this episode were Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. It was produced by Emma Reynolds, recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson.

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