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The character of Shannon is constructed as a seductive character. In the written extract Shannon is a female character who develops a flirtatious behaviour towards the male character Scotty.

An example of when Shannon displayed her flirtatious and seductive behaviour towards Scotty is when she “touched the back of his hand”, two times. In societal context touching can be a sign of attraction. Especially involving hands as that is so closely related to holding hands which is indefinitely a symbol of romantic attraction or seduction.

Another way the author constructed the character of Shannon to be seductive is through her appearance. Shannon’s character is described as having long flowing “red, red” hair. This focuses on the character of Scotty’s attraction to her appearance. Shannon is also described as having a dramatic look to her, with bright red lipstick and a high forehead.

Therefore through appearance and action the character of Shannon is constructed to be a seductive character.

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The character of Shannon is constructed as seductive through her deliberate actions such as, “smiled at him a teasing smile” this can be seen as flirting, manipulative and controlling power which can lead to a dangerous perspective on the character of Shannon. The action of her smiling is directed at him deliberately and can input a positive and happy relationship. This action can make him think she likes him. The action of teasing indicates she is powerful or the dominant person in the situation, she is controlling him. Another example of how the character of Shannon is seen as seductive is through the quote, “she nibbled at her bottom lip” this can also be seen as flirting, intimate and manipulative. The action of her nibbling her lip is delicate, soft and feminine. Shannon is directing an inferential action towards him which makes him draw on external knowledge. Therefore the character of Shannon is constructed as seductive and partly dangerous throughout the text.

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By saying “Her long red, red hair falling loose behind her was really wild and sexy.”, the R.L Stine is demonstrating the seductive characteristics of the character Shannon. Through repition of the words “Red, Red”, when commentating on the hair of Shannon, the author draws emphasise on the connotations that refer to the colour red. Red can be associated with such aspects as love, passion and sexuality, implying the seductive nature of the character Shannon. However, through the emphasis provided by repition, the reader can also associate the colour to be a dark, unorganic red colour. Dark red, in which the reader can conclude is the proper hair colour of Shannon, is associated with danger and power. This goes along the theme of seduction, as seduction often is associated with hidden meanings, or a secret agenda. By providing emphasis on the colour red, the author allows the reader to conclude that the character Shannon displays seductive traits, with a possible hidden agenda

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The character of Shannon constructed a seductive appearance towards Scotty, through her flirtatious and manipulative actions.

Shannon flirts a lot with Scotty throughout the extract. An example of this is when she is talking about the dance she replies to Scotty saying "I don't have a date either". This shows how she is trying to flirt and hint that they should go to the dance together in a seductive manner. She is also quite manipulative when they go to put the bike I need Scottys car and "she bent over to pick up the bike". She does this to show off her physical assets and alarm his sexual innuendo. She tries to manipulate Scotty and try turn him on. She does this to seduce him and play with his mind.
As we can see through Shannons flirtatious and manipulative actions, we see how she seduces Scotty.

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The character of Shannon is constructed as a seductive character towards Scottie. This is due to the quote “I don’t have a date either”. This shows that she is being flirty as she is trying to confuse Scottie about her true emotions.this always shows that she is trying to arouse Scottie as she is telling Scottie that she is available plus she is attractive. This is also showing that she is a seductive character because she mentions this while in the car and there is alot  of options in the car. That is why Shannon is a seductive character.

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The character of Shannon is constructed as dangerous through her risk taking actions as the Scott finds Shannon stuck with a flat tire in the middle of the night. Shannon potentially is far away from home and is alone. Scottys comment "it's a pretty cold night for a bike" questions Shannons appearance in his neighbourhood and why she would be out at night. This quote shows that Shannon is potentially dangerous as she is putting her self at risk being a young female, by her vulnerable self in the middle of the night. Inferences about the night is usually that bad things happen that no one is around outside, it's dangerous for anyone not looking for any trouble. Shannon is putting herself at this risk. Another inference from this quote and shannons actions is the unknown reason for her riding at bike a night. It is not mentioned during the text and there was no reason supplied to why she was bike riding and where she was going. Though Shannon's risk taking and unreasonable actions she is constructed as a dangerous character to the reader.

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The character is constructed as seductive through her flirtatious actions and seductive quotes.

The action of “She nibbled at the bottom of her lip” suggests to the reader that she is trying to hint at the male her affection and perhaps trying to communicate to him her intentions, since the lips are associated with kissing.

She also uses rather romantic language towards the man, such as “everyone knows you”, hinting that there is something drawing attention to himself, like his looks or the way he speaks. Also, telling him that everyone knows who he’s is is hinting at an obsession over him, as if he is well known to everyone as the guy who looks good or has nice eyes.

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Seductive-
"She lowered her eyes and smiled at him, a teasing smile”
"Everyone knows you she added her voice a whisper”
"Aren’t you going to the dance? She asked toying with a strand of her hair”
“She reached over and touched his hand... thanks for rescuing me”
“She nibbled her bottom lip”
“You were good tonight she said softly”
“Are you always real modest? She asked touching the back of his hand again”
“ I will she said softly”

Dangerous-
“Everyone knows you”
“But he saw her face turn serious”
“Her big brown eyes examining him”
“They’re all big, really big”
“The oldest one, Kurt, was a pro wrestler

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seductive

“ smiled at him, a teasing smile, and slid into the passenger seat”

“ toying with a strand of hair. She reached over and touched the back of his hand”

“She nibbled at her bottom lip”

dangerous

“She lowered her dark eyes”

“Thanks for rescuing me”

“I don’t have a date yet either”

In the extract ‘Shannon’, Shannon Smith is portrayed as a seductive women. This is shown through her actions in this example “ she was playing with her hair again”. The word ‘again’ constructs her to be persistent and intentional and shows her to be repeating her actions to show or display a flirtatious side of her. She also draws attention to her self and her body and skin as she plays “with her hair”  which creates the idea that she wants to show more skin or body to him, to have a more intimate relationship. The use of “her” and “she” shows that the person is watching her as she had distracting them, displaying the motive of being seductive and drawing them in. Through this she creates a seductive side of her character.

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Evidence of Seduction:
- "Smiled at him with a teasing smile".
- "Touching the back of his hand again".
- "I don't have a date yet either".
- "She nibbled at her bottom lip".

Evidence of Danger:
- "They're all big. Really big".
-"He saw her face turn serious, "I will" she said softly".

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Seductive
- “ toying with a strand of her hair, tangling it and untangling it and untangling it around her fingers.”
- “ She reached over and touched the back of his hand”

Dangerous
- “ He didn’t go to the old village much. None of his friends lived there. The houses were old and small and close together.”
- ”she lowered her dark eyes and smiled at him.”
- “he meant it as a joke, but he saw her face turn serious.”

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Seduction: "toying with a strand of her hair, tangling it and untangling it with her fingers"

Paragraph: Throughout the context Shannon constructed a seductive manner towards Scot. She was trying to impress him by “toying with a strand of her hair” just so she can show off to him and was trying to make him impressed. Shannon then started playing with her hair by “tangling it and untangling it with her fingers” to draw attention for herself, trying to get Scot to look at her and the movements she was making, Shannon was seeking a response.

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Seduction:
" ‘Hi,’ she said breathily”
"...her big, brown eyes examining him.”
"She lowered her dark eyes, smiled at him, a teasing smile...”

Analysis:
The character Shannon is created to be a character with a dangerous and seductive. This can be demonstrated in the quote “...and big, brown eyes, and full red lips.” as two sides of Shannon can be seen here. This makes her a possible danger as the way that they describe her eyes compared to her lips are contradictory. Her eyes are described to be “big and brown” which is often associated with someone who is young, naive, innocent and lives in a world of curiosity while her lips are described as full and red which suggests power, boldness and danger as the colour red is an extremely bold colour, it draws attention to her lips which suggests her to be quite sultry and flirty as well.

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Evidence of seduction
"The way she nibble at her bottom lip.”
“Touching the back of his hand again.”

Evidence of Danger
"Her big brown eyes examining him.”
"Was a pro wrestler. A pro.”

Response to class question
In the extract Shannon the character is contstructed as being seductive through her actions towards Scott. This is achieved through actions of touch which create intamacy and persistence.

Shannon is constructed to be seductive as she displays actions of intamacy and affection, “Touching the back of his hand again.” By Touching his hand the character achieves a sense of intamacy and personal connection in relation to cultural context. Touching ones hand can be seen as a more close or intimate action with another person, it also can be related to a sense of romance as it is quite personal. This shows that when Shannon touches the back of Scott’s hand she creates intamacy through her actions which heavily relates to seduction therefore creating a seductive character.

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Evidence of seduction:
• “she smiled at him, a teasing smile”
• “toying with a strand of her hair”
• “ she nibbles at her bottom lip”
• “touching the back of his hand”

Evidence of danger:
• “Her long red, red hair falling loose behind”
• “ her big, brown eyes examining him”
• “ everyone knows you”
• “she lowered her dark eyes”
• “the oldest one, Kurt was a pro-wrestler”
• “But he saw her face turn serious”

Analysis:
The character of Shannon Smith has been constructed in the text as being seductive and this is seen through her actions in the following example, “she nibbled at her bottom lip. She glanced back at him shyly”. In this example the word ‘nibbling’ has connotations to delicacy and softness, however it draws attention to her lips and portrays as wanting the guy to kiss her, almost in an insisting way. This way is also seen when she glances “back at him shyly”, almost softening the superiority of her nibbling her lip and wanting to initiate it. The shyness portrays her to be more feminine and convey the typical stereotype of women as being soft in nature.

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Seductive quotes include...
"She lowered her dark eyes, smiled at him, a teasing smile, and slid into the passenger seat.”
"... toying with a strand of her hair, tangling it and untangling it around her fingers.”
"She reached over and touched the back of his hand.”
"... she nibbled at her bottom lip.”
"...Touching the back of his hand again”

Whereas dangerous examples include...
"It’s a pretty cold night for a bike”
"’Where do you live?’ he asked. ‘At sharpes corners’, she said”
"... but he saw her face turn serious. ‘I will’, she said softly”

Dangerous paragraph.

The character of Shannon can be perceived to be dangerous specifically by the quote of “... but he saw her face turn serious. ‘I will’, she said softly. The connotation of dangerous can be implied by the fact that she said ‘I will’ this being her response when the boy said ‘ remind me to stay on your goof side’ In this context she almost means this a promise that she will make a conscious effort to miantain contact with eachother. She also said this ‘softly’, this can mean that she is pretending to act she so that he can barely hear what she is saying on purpose. This would deliberately cause some sort of concern to this boy, as she seems to be acting manipulative a possibly innocent and friendly response.

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Danger:
-Cold Night
-‘Where do you live?’ ‘In Sharpes Corners’ she said looking out the window
-The houses were old and small
-Her brothers are Pro wrestles

Seductive
-Red hair flowed down her waist
-wild and sexy
-she nibbles at her bottom lip

In the extract the character of Shannon is constructed as dangerous and seductive through her physical appearance. The character of Scott is attracted to Shannon’s seductive flirtatious behavior. Scott describes Shannon’s hair as ‘Red red’ putting Repetition on the word. The colour red symbolises love and power. This colour makes the reader believe that Scott is I love with Shannon. The colour being so powerful also means Shannon has power over him. Red can also be described an alarming colour. This is a symbol that Scott should be alarmed as Shannon could be dangerous and manipulative. Through the characters flirtatious actions the reader can make the assumption that Shannon is trying to seduct Scott.

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the character of Shannon is constructed as seductive through her actions of being flirtatious and manipulative. “Reached over and touched the back of his hand”. By reaching over Shannon is being manipulative. This is showing that she wants something and she is going to get it as it a forceful and deliberate act. This quote also shows Shannon’s flirtatious nature. This is shown by Shannon “touching the back of his hand”. Most of the time people who are touching and holding hands or touching hands are those in relationships as it is a sign of affection towards the other person. By Shannon showing Scotty this sign of affection it shows that she is being flirtatious. This quote shows that Shannon is being flirtatious and manipulative through her actions.

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Seductive
Quotes:
- "she lowered her dark eyes, smiled at him, a teasing smile"
- "Aren't you going to the dance? She asked, toying with a strand of her hair"
- "she nibbled at the bottom of her lip"
- "she reached over and touched the back of his hand"

Analysis of quote
Through the use of diction and connotations in the extract, Shannon is portrayed as seductive. We see her seductive nature in the quote “Aren't you going to the dance? She asked, toying with a grand of her hair”, in particular the use of the word ‘toying’ that has playful connotations also associated with manipulation and games assuming she is trying to seduce and manipulate Scotty. We know she is personally and deliberately trying to connect with him as she specifically says ‘you’ and is asking him a question and seduction is quite personal so this proves she is trying to seduce him. The fact that she is “toying with a strand of her hair” draws attention to her femininity, in particular her hair which is known to attract men implying she is ‘toying’ with Scotty’s sexuality trying to seduce him.

Dangerous
Quotes:
- "wow Scotts said remind me not to get on your bad side! He had meant it as a joke but he saw her face turn serious, I will she said softly"

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Seductive
"Everyone knows you" her voice with a whisper
"Smiled at him, a teasing smile"
"Toying with a strand of her hair, tangling it"
"She reached over and touched the back of his hand"
"Thanks for recuing me"
"Touching the back of his hand again"
"Winding it around one hand"
"falling loose behind her was really wild and sexy. And had a high forehead, and big, brown eyes and dull red lips.

Dangerous
'Everyone knows you'
'You know the old village..... none of his friends live there"
"They're all really big"
But he saw her dance turn serious "I will

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How is the character of Shannon constructed as seductive? Shannon is portrayed as seductive in the text through her actions, her purposely reaching over is a loving gesture and shows affection as we relate physical touch to flirting. As well as her going out of her way to “reach over” and touch him allows and also signals him to know that she is available (not taken) and into him.