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"All I want for David is that he grow up to be a man" - Father
Dialogue reveals that David's father is not exactly proud of the way David is growing up.

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"The incident with Joey had shaken me profoundly and its effect was to make me secretive and cruel." - David Narration
First person narration, adjectives emphasize his sense that the interaction with Joey was the cause of other problems.

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"'Daddy,' I said. And began to cry. And if speaking had been agony, this was worse and yet I could not stop"
The use of dialogue conveys the broken connection between David and his father. The word "Daddy" illustrates how their relationship has never matured, and this moment of vulnerability expresses the pain that David is feeling and his final cry for help to his father.

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"I ached abruptly, intolerably, with a longing to go home; not to that hotel, in one of the alleys of Paris, where the concierge barred the way with my unpaid bill; but home across the ocean, to things and people I knew and understood; to those things, those places, those people which I would always helplessly, and in whatever bitterness of spirit, love above all else. I had never realized such a sentiment in myself before, and it frightened me."
David, first person narration. Contrasting emotions, The powerful emotive language represents how he feels about home and Paris, admitting that he's homesick for the first time.

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"We were not like father and son, may father sometimes proudly said, we were like buddies. I think my father sometimes actually believed this. I never did. I did not want to be his buddy, I wanted to be his son"
(Said by David)
The punctuation (such as the sudden full stops) give a sence of sadness, as this means there are many pauses in the dialogue.

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"I had reasons of my own for believing, remembering the extent of Giovanni's desperation, knowing how far this terror which was so vast that it had simply become a void had driven him."
The use of visual imagery supports how Giovanni has experienced his addiction to opium, using the metaphor of 'being driven by a vast and terrible void' to support the emptiness and complete inhabitation of his addiction. As Giovanni works in a hedonistic environment, he would be more prone to opium exposure, which makes the risk of him getting addicted much higher than anyone working in another career.

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''I did not want him to know me. I did not anyone to know me.''
- David Narrator
He claims that the he wants to be alone and detached from the people around him especially his father in this case.

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"I repent now --- for all the good it does --- one particular lie among the many lies I've told, told, lived, and believed." - Narration
Technique: caesura
Meaning: This technique is used to make it seem closer to his heart. It makes it seem more genuine.

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, I had reasons of my own for believing , remembering the extent of Giovanni's desperation, knowing how far this terror which was so vast that it had simply become a void had driven him.

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Language Technique: Imagery

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"But this time when I touched him something happened in him and in me which made this touch different from any touch either of us had ever known." David narration
Repetition- continuous emphasis on 'touch'. This reveals to the audience just how powerful this touch was to David and Joey. This is part of his self discovery s this was the first time he realizes he liked boys.

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"What passed between us as masculine cantor exhausted and appalled me."
David narration
Language form:Dialogue
The first time when David describes what he hates about his father and the relationship he shares with him.

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I began, perhaps, to be lonely that summer and began, that summer, the flight which has brought me to this darkening window.
First person narration to show more emotion
Direct dialogue

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“ugh” said Guillaume, Staring at the door of the cafe before which they stood, “I am sure this place is infested with vermin. Do you want to poison us” the use of dialogue within this sentence, demonstrates, how unlike Giovanni and David, Guillaume is very wealthy, he is used to beautiful men and expensive things, and when he is introduced to Giovanni’s lifestyle and the places he frequents, he is almost in shock.

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"It bubbled upward out of them like a fountain of black water." - David's narration.
The use of this metaphorical simile emphasizes how David believes that the situation unimaginable in his world. It indicates how David is affected by the environment he was in

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Davids dad: "don't you know, better than to go driving around like that when you're drunk?"
An example of a rhetorical question, Davids dad asked this question knowing that the answer wouldn't matter.

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"Though he  [Jacques] wanted to trust everybody, he was incapable of trusting a living soul"
(Said by David)
Irony: It is ironic because we as the audience know this is true for David as well; he wants to be open about his homosexuality, but he knows it's a taboo to most people from the 50's.

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'He pulled me against him, putting himself into my arms as though he were giving me himself to carry, and slowly pulled me down with him to that bed. With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighs Yes. - David Narration
Dialogue reveals that he is lying to himself, and doing things although he is not fully enjoying it. This is achieved by a juxtaposition

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'" I am really helpless in front of her and if she does not

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"I was suddenly ashamed that I was with him." - David Narration
Emotive language reveals how the way he was brought up makes him feel as if he should be ashamed of being around someone gay.