“RUBBISH!”, written by Chris Lydgate and Nick Budnick, is a first person narrative that begins as a prolepsis paragraph that also has a mysterious tone to it. “It's past midnight. Over the whump of the wipers and the screech of the fan belt, we lurch through the side streets of Southeast Portland in a battered white van,”. This direct quote is a “flashforward” and a narrative hook. The reasons for these two narrative styles is because the quote describes the scene of what is to come in the story and it convinces the audience to continue to read the story. “Well, yes. Technically, this is a journalistic exercise--at least, that's what we keep telling ourselves”. This quote proves that Lydgate and Budnick are narrating this story in first person because they continued to use the pronoun ‘we’ several times throughout the narrative. …show more content…
“Haul of Fame” begins with this quote, “Decked out in watch caps and rubber gloves, we are kneeling in a freezing garage and cradling our first major discovery--a five-pound bag of dog poo”. This quote is a continuation of what was said in the first paragraph of the narrative. The tone starting for this passage begins as enthusiastic, then goes to being chatty. Enthusiastic and chatty were the two tones chosen because the setting of the scene was energizing for the characters to be looking through Portland’s brass’ garbage and after the narrative gets informal and conversational on what they find in different people’s garbage. There were 3 examples of foreshadowing that was found throughout this narrative that hints what is to come in the story. The first example is “Pushing the reportorial envelope--by liberating the trash of Portland's top brass”. This quote helps represent foreshadowing because they introduce the plot of the narrative, which does not begin until several paragraphs