Gender Inequality in India in Brain Caswell´s The Best...

INTRODUCTION The story â€Å"The Best Boots in The World† by Brain Caswell is a short story which relates to a teenager called Mikey (Michael Jordan).In the story, the protagonist Mikey is literally obsessed with basketball and his Air Nikes, which he considers to be the â€Å"Best Boots in the World†. Mikey worked out best of his abilities to gain the pair of Nikes, but when it came to the point when he was about to lose the most precious thing of his life. Mikey yelled and stood up, throwing himself out of the seat and ignoring the pain in his injured knee. Mikey never knew that someone else would have to pay such an immense price for his ignorance. In the text, the author has used some literature devices such as character development and language technique to enhance the story within itself. Character development is mainly used to change the characters overtime. Language techniques such as imagery, dialogue and figurative language are used to show the reader the nature of the cha racter, their lifestyle and the changes that occurs within them. The intention of this paper is to discuss different language techniques and character development used by the author. BODY Language techniques are one of the most prominent ways to identify the characters within the text. The reader gets to know the characters by their actions, behavior and thoughts. These features are shown in the text through techniques such as direct speech, imagery, use of dialogue and etc. One example of this is when the