Positioning the Audience with Literary Techniques in "Hoot" Anonymous 12th Grade

In Carl Hiaasen’s humorous novel full of witty times yet serious situations, Hoot, uses many literary techniques and brings the attention of key ideas into play, to influence the reader in acknowledging the main concern of the story, being environmental issues. Through the author's cleverly crafted dialogue and his writing style which provides detailed description, the reader can view the characters they respect and thus, believing their ideas. Additionally, the persistent characterisation of protagonists including Roy and Mullet Fingers is emphasised to show that they refuse to give up against the harshness of those that show no remorse for the burrowing owls. Lastly, through hilarious irony, Hiaasen intentionally gives the stereotypical attributes to antagonists in order to accentuate the characters the audience should not consider. Through this, these messages and common devices Hiaasen is sending towards the reader is recognized.

Hiaasen makes brilliant use of dialogue and has a writing style that is descriptive yet simple. For instance take, "Roy glanced around anxiously”, "Curly thought sourly” and "Dana grinned malevolently”, all of these adverbs give the audience information about the characters we as readers are...