" You imagine some guy with earphones. CSI.

You can picture it, and you can feel captain panic coming on, but you fight him down. Because all you can really hear is Alyson and wind sounds. There is ust the two of you! you loo" up and out at the world passing your phone booth. #o one so much as loo"s at you. You$re used to that% right now you$re glad of it.". &ow is that for putting yourself in the shoes of someone else' (eading that short e)cerpt from the no*el Blin" + Caution by Tim ,ynne-.ones you were probably able to *isuali/e what the characters e)periences, probably much more than if you were to ha*e read it from a different point of *iew. This techni0ue is one of the *arious writing techni0ues that Tim ,ynne-.ones uses in his boo" to gi*e it a interesting and in some ways different feel to the boo". The story puts you in the shoes of a boy,blin", who gets lin"ed to a large crime while trying stealing brea"fast at a hotel. The first thing the author does when you begin reading the boo" is place you right into the part as the main character. Throughout the boo" you *iew the story through the eyes of the main character. By doing this the author allows you to e)perience the e)pense and the feelings of blin" as you go through the story. Also doing this there is room for a bit of imagination that may or may not ma"e the boo" more en oyable for the reader. Also the author is *ery descripti*e and he uses e)amples that most people would be able to *isuali/e while reading. Techni0ues li"e these ma"e the boo" more en oyable because it gi*es the reader a sense of understanding and relation,e*en if you ha*e ne*er been through what the character is going through, to the main character and the

o*erall story drawing you more into the boo" and more li"ely to read to the end. #ot only does the author tell a story from Blin"s perspecti*e but he also tal"s about another character, caution, who finds herself caught up with Blin" while *iewing him as an easy target of someone to rob. Caution is *iewed from an outside perspecti*e as well as through the eyes of you,blin". This again puts you into the story and since you are already *iewing the story through the eyes of Blin" you are e)posed to Caution through Blin"s eyes and also through the authors *iew which creates a bit of dramatic irony. Also .ones tells the story as if he were,say a guardian watching o*er you, that "nows whats going to happen before it happens but he$s leading in that direction. The boo" is being told in the present so your e)periencing the e*ents at the same time that the character is, again putting you into the story and gi*ing you a little bit of freedom to how you e)perience the story. The authors tone is *ery free spirited but still with a solid story line. Also .ones tends to use short sentences throughout the no*el to complete thoughts and it gi*es it more of a feel that your are going through the thin"ing process that the main character is going through for e)ample" she hears a noise out in the hallway. 1f course. It will be now that he comes bac". But she ma"es no effort to mo*e." As you can see in this sentence these short sentences sort of flow in the way that people thin" or at least in the way that I sometimes thin". 1*erall I thin" the author did a good ob using different literary

techni0ues to draw a reader physically into the boo" and "eep them reading. 2sing third person narration, dramatic irony and other *arious literary techni0ues Tim ,ynne-.ones creates a free flowing well lead story that would be able to appeal to a *ariety of audiences.