Monday, 30 September 2013

Text A Analysis

Text A is a transcript of four boys playing a computer game. Andrew is playing, the others are watching.

From this text I learnt that Ben is the bossiest one out of the four and likes to give orders, I can see this because he uses a lot of imperative verbs for example 'throw your light sabre'.

Andrew seems to know what he is doing when he plays this game as he says 'this is what I do every time I kill him' and this shows he is arguing against Ben trying to tell him different. But also he is concerntrating as he keeps pausing when he talks to the other boys; for example 'I can kill myself (.) observe (.) now (.) way number one' which shows he has probably played the game many times before.

Carl and David do not have that much of a role in this scene and they do not have a lot of input in the conversation. This could portray that they are the quieter ones out of the four and as they both say things simultaneously to others (e.g. when they laugh together) it shows that they agree with whats being said. Also, when David shouts 'the machine gun (.) the machine gun' this highlights how he could only be interested in the game and wants to try and help Andrew win.

Whereas Ben tries to dominate the game and get Andrew to do what he suggests, even though Andrew implies he has played the game many times before, David and Carl would prefer to observe what is happening and their actions.