Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Style and Structure Diction: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn used a unique diction throughout the novel. The diction of Huckleberry Finn, an unschooled Southerner, narrated the story as if he was speaking, with many grammatical errors. Also, diction played a major role in the dialogue, with characters using Southern and slave dialect. The unique diction of Huckleberry Finn helped set it apart from other novels of the day, and helped further develop the character of Huckleberry Finn, whose personal diction was used in the narration. Dialogue: Mark Twain utilized clever and witty dialogue often in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In most of her works, O’Connor describes the scenery and lifestyle of the Deep South and her characters speak with a southern dialect, reflecting her background. “She possessed a keen ear for southern dialect and a fine sense of irony and comic timing; with the combination of these skills, she produced some of the finest comedy in American literature”(Gordon). Even though she spent the last years of her life battling Lupus, O’Connor did not let the limitations of her disease stop her writing. Characterization is a process that authors use to help craft their characters and create rich images of them for
Tom is obsessed with doing everything how the books do it and accepts the pieces of literature as fact. He is convinced that all of those events actually happened and that the only way to be successful in his little adventures is to do exactly what happened in the novels. I think Tom Sawyer is sort of like a door into the lives of the upper class. He shows Huck Finn and his rag-tag posse what more sophisticated people do and learn. Also, I feel that Mark Twain chose to make Huck Finn the better person morally because there was a stereotype back then that poor people just couldn’t be as “good” as rich people.
As I Lay Dying: Darl Darl has the most narration time in the novel, as well as the most sensitive language. However, we know by the other characters' descriptions of him that outside of his mind, Darl is not actually that talkative. Yet, he speaks with a language far above that of other family members. He is therefore the character that Faulkner has the most power to expound upon, which is a possible reason for why he narrates so much. The author has Darl narrating most often because he is the most reliable character in the novel since he is the one character that seems to speak the most for the author, William Faulkner.
Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, explores the vast heights as well as the low depths of the motives of decent citizens of the South and how the discoveries among Penn’s characters’ exploration guide them towards the defining moment in each of their lives. Warren provides his audience a backstage pass into Willie, Jack, and a few others’ mental processes – specifically how the character gets to his or her defining moment. The pristine element in Jack’s narration presents a dichotomy in which Warren speaks more to one side than the other. The dichotomy oscillates betwixt to subjects: at the surface or superficial level, Warren’s novel speaks to the issue of corrupt politics particularly in the South. In Willie Stark’s case,
In a short story called “Black People and Public Spaces by Brent Staples he shows readers how language can be powerful through nonverbal language. The man in the story could have been the most harmless man in the world but because of his appearance and the way people perceived his appearance it frightened people. The main character in the story had to come up with another kind of non verbal language just to make people feel at ease. So he chooses to whistle certain tunes and then people would not be afraid of him. Staples also use the written word to show how words have
As one of the greatest American authors ever, "He wins our assent, perhaps now more than ever. His emotions were prophetic, his antennae were out to the truth"(Bloom 201). These words, nonetheless, describe the great Ernest Hemingway. Born in 1899, Hemingway covered nearly every war by way of journalism, as well as fighting, until his passing in 1961. With this journalism came his signature journalistic style of writing to express feeling and emotions, such as in one of his well known short stories "Indian Camp".
“In modern narrative, it is not so much what story is told, but the way it is told that captivates the reader.” This statement is true of Ernest Hemingway’s writing style used in his novels. An example of this is in his novel The Sun Also Rises. His unique writing style sparked reader’s interests from the beginning of his career in the 1920s. His simple and direct prose complemented by the use of short and factual sentences and his repetitive dialogue demanded that readers look beyond the surface. Hemingway termed this technique as the Iceberg Theory.
Ray Bradbury is one of the most well known Science Fiction writers of all time because of his ability to stretch the genre to fit his style. Something Wicked this Way Comes is one of the few novels that he wrote, and full of suspense and mystery with a strong theme. Evil is a shadow and good is a reality. Evil cannot exist but in the absence of good. He feels he potential of evil as if is a germ, in all of us, but harmless if kept in good condition.
Establishing Ethos in Writing An author can write with spectacular diction and elegant flow, but without establishing good ethos, that can dilute the rest of the message. In Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem, Lame Deer’s Talking to the Owls and Butterflies, and Benjamin Franklin’s Way to Wealth, their writings are focused on this exact idea. Whether it is through telling a story of a drunken Indian, attacking whites for what they have done to the world, or even giving advice on work ethic and gratuity, they all let their intelligence shine, make the reader feel sympathetic, and add some humor to lighten the mood. Each of the three authors portrays their intelligence in unique manner. At the end of Franklin’s essay he states, “I am, as ever, thine to