Alright, I know it's always better to give the reader the details bit by bit, or it's not going to be a very enjoyable novel. But in the scene I'm writing, there are some complications:
My protagonist, lets call him Sam, knows a man, let's call him Paul. Paul wants to find a way to convince Sam to work for him as an assassin. So, Paul uses Sam's dark history to show him how Sam would do great as an assassin and use his anger and so.
So, Paul tells Sam that he knows that he had been kidnapped when he was 9years old and that the kidnapper tortured him in many ways, leaving marks that lived through years on his entire body. He also tells him that he should avenge himself, for that kidnapper had abused Sam (you know, sexually abusing him). Not to mention that Paul knows that Sam killed the kidnapper and ran away (Never mind how).
My question is: Do I let Paul use all the details to convince Sam? Or do I use only a few and let the others prove their existence later?
My protagonist, lets call him Sam, knows a man, let's call him Paul. Paul wants to find a way to convince Sam to work for him as an assassin. So, Paul uses Sam's dark history to show him how Sam would do great as an assassin and use his anger and so.
So, Paul tells Sam that he knows that he had been kidnapped when he was 9years old and that the kidnapper tortured him in many ways, leaving marks that lived through years on his entire body. He also tells him that he should avenge himself, for that kidnapper had abused Sam (you know, sexually abusing him). Not to mention that Paul knows that Sam killed the kidnapper and ran away (Never mind how).
My question is: Do I let Paul use all the details to convince Sam? Or do I use only a few and let the others prove their existence later?