Bringing out the Dead

Now a major motion picture if you hadn't heard. I perfer the book of course, but the movie was entertaining and quoted from the book directly for the most part. Joe Connelly isn't a flowerly writer. His meaning is compressed like Hemmingway somwhat.

"We rushed the dead boy into the emergency room."

The sentence ends a chapter and tells us the outcome without walking us through the scenes, compressing pages into the single adjective "dead." if he was just a boy, the outcome would be uncertain and require more naration. But they rushed the dead boy, that tells us more about them than the boy or the future.