I ate the Divorce papers, by Gabriel Davis - Monologue

I ate them. That's right. I ate the divorce papers, Charles. I ate them with ketchup. And they were good... goooood. You probably want me to get serious about our divorce. The thing is, you always called our marriage a joke. So let's use logic here: If A: we never had a serious marriage, then B: we can't have a serious divorce. No. We can't. The whole thing's a farce, Charles - a farce that tastes good with ketchup...

The extract from this monologue is a good example to show the comedy behind the very obvious anger that is made clear by the short sentences that create a demanding and livid tone. The simple use of ‘No. We can’t.’ helps us to see how difficult and upset our character is, the negative connotations are entertaining and will help the audience to understand the characters feelings more but also add a comical tone to it also, there is a clear forceful feeling behind this.

The fact that the register is colloquial with ‘Charles’ and is such an angry piece makes the audience more informed and the purpose even more entertaining as there are more people to be aware of. Though there are no stage directions through the dialogue it is almost as if you can see how angry the character is. ‘You always called our marriage a joke,’ shows how there is more to the relationship than just what is in the monologue and they really do know each other. This also would most likely relate to the target audience which is married women who probably find enjoyment in reading this in a lighthearted and friendly manner. The whole piece is very relevant to many people, the repetition of certain words infers just how angry the speaker is and that one of those words is 'good' and is in great contrast with the rest of the monologue's negative lexis makes it much more interesting and eye catching, especially how it is emphasized when repeated.

The discourse marker, 'the thing is,' keeps the audience and other character interested while also staying informal. It makes those listening/reading aware that a point is to be made and therefore encourages their concentration to listen further. 

The metaphor carried throughout the monologue of eating the divorce papers 'with ketchup' keeps a comical theme to a very serious subject and would humour the audience and, as a scripted monologue with its purpose to entertain it does this well by being all through the piece. Eating paper makes the character sound very peculiar and the bizarre sentence infers she is not to be argued with as she is so angry she is ready to do anything. 

Characters and their age - blog analysis

http://storymind.com/blog/blog/page/2/

The Attributes of Age

People in general, and writers in particular, tend to stereotype the attributes of age more than just about any other character trait. There are, of course, the physical aspects of age, ranging from size, smoothness of skin, strength, mobility to the various ailments associated with our progress through life. Then there are the mental and emotional qualities that we expect to find at various points in life. But the process of aging involves some far more subtle components to our journey through life. 

This blog goes on to talk about how many characters in novels are similar and unoriginal, giving the authors opinion on how to make creative and new protagonists as well as other characters. The text uses low frequency lexis making us aware that the target audience are for those who are keen on the subject and are of an older age range. The blog speaks to it's audience with imperative sentences such as, 'You owe it to your characters.' Including the word 'you' makes this audience feel much more involved. 
There are more ways that the author makes the audience feel included, by admitting parts about their lives in first person for example, 'I can’t remember the last time I ran full-tilt.'
As well as this they use a conclusion at the end to finish their lengthy piece, if I were to write a similar blog with a similar word count I would do this as it is a nice way to finish and is easier if somebody would like to see the most important facts and opinions you have. 

How I Met Your Mother Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-mhSXYQE0

I chose to analyse this small clip from How I Met Your Mother as I find it humorous and the dialogue is clearly between friends which the director and screen writers play on to make the scene comical. You can tell they are close as Lilly calls Ted 'Grandma' which you would not normally do if you would not normally do if you were not friends with them, they also have a relationship outside of the scene as Lilly also says 'we're not having this argument again' implying they already have. The scene is very comfortable and informal by how the two actors react to each other and this makes it much more entertaining and easy to watch for its target audience who would most likely just want to sit and laugh at the television. The register changes slightly as Ted becomes passionate on a certain subject and suddenly goes on to list a set of low frequency lexis that the audience wouldn't need to understand as it is not even listened to by the other character, meaning the audience would not need to be intelligent on the subject to understand. The clip is very funny and entertaining and therefore suits its purpose very well.

Complicated - Avril Lavigne

Calm down, what are you shouting about? Lie down it has all happened before, if you could only let it be, you will observe, I am fond of you as you are, when we are cruising in your vehicle, when we are conversing together, however you have converted to...Somebody else when you are with others, you are examining your back like you cannot breathe, you are attempting to be cold, to me, you look a fool, talk to me. Why do you feel the need to make things very difficult? I am aware of the fact you are performing to be somebody else, it has me aggravated. 

Armstrong and Miller - RAF Pilots - D Day

 This video, its contents and the language used is all aiming for comical result. The language is very informal and contains a lot of slang, for example ‘if they do haz donkey rides’ it is not used in front of people that they do not know. I would say that they talk this way because they clearly know each other so it is therefore a form of sociolect, however this doesn’t change when the two main characters speak to another person, they carry on with phrases like ‘big time.’

Also the accent they have is very posh and accurate to the time setting they are in, yet what they say is not suitable for that. Armstrong especially uses many contractions such as ‘ain’t’ and ‘isn’t’ to make the viewers more comfortable and at home with watching it; this and the accent make it much more comical how they contrast each other so much.

The word ‘so’ is used a lot as a discourse marker and to emphasise what comes after, as they are going for a more informal, chavvy language to make the contrasts more apparent. As well as this the other character in the clip is very different, his language is brief and commanding, very much more suitable for the time period, which shows even more contrast between the characters. 

Jade - Book Blurb

Jade is trying not to be an awkward human being at her new college, by struggling not to make any cringey introductions, embarrass herself by falling down the steps (again) and attempting to avoid being picked on in class just to answer a question she'll nervously stutter a wrong answer to. But concentrating on that, trying to overcome her depression of not seeing her favourite band for very nearly a year, her lack of money for gigs as it is and the birth of her new baby brother, Charlie, who won't - can't - turn out as strange as her two younger siblings, is becoming tiresome within just a week of the new school year; especially when every stranger seems to think she's a 'reckless, irresponsible' teen mum whenever she's with her younger brother. So shove some A-levels, 600 new people in a crowded corridor and the threat of public speaking on top and you'll have Jade Ford, who's just about finding enough time to eat, sleep and write.

★★★★

Daily Mirror

"Hard to put down!"

NME

Wuthering Height Analysis

 ‘What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.—My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”

This is an extract from Wuthering Heights and I chose it as it one of the most tense parts of the book and shows how throughout the book characters can develop and interact with each other. There are few full sentences and many commas in the extract which gives the idea of fast, jumbled ramblings. The rhetorical question at the start makes the reader feel more involved but as Catherine goes on to answer her own question you can still sense her uncertainties. You can see through Catherine’s rant and the punctuation used that she is upset and possibly angry. The imagery is strong during the piece and the woods and the rocks contrast extremely well, especially as the theme with nature is important through the whole novel. I think the imagery is very exact to what Catherine is trying to explain as she explains she knows what the world is like but then goes to say without Heathcliff it would not be like that at all. As Catherine explains the world would be a ‘mighty stranger’ without Heathcliff, it infers how lonely and unaccepted she would feel in a foreign place. The emphasis on certain words suits the piece well as it contrasts against the use of full stops before it and contrasting against the calm and making the rant sound more real and angry.