How Does Dicamillo Present The Audience In The Tale Of Despereaux

In the book the Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, there are several instances where tough questions are portrayed to the reader and there is a certain writing style that DiCamillo uses to tell her story to her audience. A tough question that I came across while reading was found in Chapter 8 to the rats, page 44 and it states, I thought that this was a good example of a tough question that is being presented to the audience by DiCamillo because the narrator is asking the reader to contemplate an important question that may have or have not happened to anyone of us. The narrator is asking us whether any of us have ever been in a situation where our father or another family member has not stood up for us when something bad is about to

Throughout the story, the author will often ask us questions, for example, The author seems to be proposing questions to the audience to get us thinking and fully engaged in the story. The story is not being told from one characters point of view, but from several different characters who are retelling a story to the audience. An example that I found while reading can be found in The Second Book entitled Chiaroscuro and this book is being told from the author’s voice, because it begins with, I think that the author chose to begin this chapter that way because she is acting as a story teller, just like how a fairytale has one person who is the one that is telling most of the story. As we continue reading the Second Book, we can see how it is also being told from Roscuro and what his life was like in the dungeon and how one day he enters the banquet room of the castle and causes trouble. I also noticed while reading the DiCamillo wrote some words in italics in order to mark the emphasis for sounds and for emphasizing what characters are saying. An example can be found on 57 where it states, DiCamillo is uses italics to emphasize the sound and the rhythm of the drum that Despereaux’s father was