Paragraph for "Kiss and Tell"

                                                                                                            Colin Feeney

                                                                                                            3/2/12

                                                                                                            Class-E

                                                                                                           

            Shifting from a good romantic night to an odd awkward night, in “Kiss and Tell”, Alain de Botton employs unique characterization in order to show how the family cares for him, but that the dad is a nerd and the mom where’s the pants in the family but is embarrassing. There is a lot about how the mom is embarrassing. “I hope she didn’t come with one of her gentlemen friends. She’s really too old for that.” This is a quote that the daughter is saying about her mother. “He must have gone to buy programmes.” This is another quote the daughter says, but it’s about the father. This is one of the quotes that show how he is embarrassing. This is how this short story uses characterization.