{"id":46039,"date":"2020-08-03T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/?p=763213"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:41:12","slug":"a-breath-of-the-wild-guide-ended-up-in-the-new-novel-from-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/a-breath-of-the-wild-guide-ended-up-in-the-new-novel-from-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-author\/","title":{"rendered":"A Breath of the Wild guide ended up in the new novel from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SEO is a powerful weapon when deployed correctly. For video game websites, the idea is to answer the questions players will ask Google, such as: “what ingredients do I need to dye clothes red in Breath of the Wild?” <\/span><\/p>\n

The author of Holocaust novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas recently released his new book, A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom. Like his previous novel, John Boyne explores human history through a fictional lens. The characters aren’t real, but the events they experience are. It’s the kind of work that has a lot of research behind it.<\/p>\n

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In one passage, Boyne explains the dressmaking process, which requires a red dye. He writes, “The dyes that I used in dressmaking were composed from various ingredients, depending on the colour required, but almost all required nightshade, sapphire, keese wing, the leaves of a silent princess plant, Octorok eyeball, swift violet, thistle and hightail lizard. In addition, for the red I had used Abrila’s dress, I employed spicy pepper, the tail of the red lizalfos and four Hylian shrooms.” <\/p>\n

These are all ingredients from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It appears as if the author did a cursory Google search of “ingredients red dye clothes” and turned up an SEO snippet of a guide from a gaming website. Writer Dana Schwartz did the detective work in the Twitter thread below: <\/p>\n

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OKAY. This is a thread, but it’s worth it I promise.<\/p>\n

On Reddit today, user u\/NoNoNo_OhOhOh posted a page from acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne’s latest book, ‘The Traveller At the Gates of Wisdom.<\/p>\n

Note the ingredients. pic.twitter.com\/4RTgZxtUT7<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) August 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n