Non-Standard English Syntax In Toni Morrison

In the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood shows a dystopian society and a place where the use of literacy is limited among the citizens. There are not many languages that uses specific names that are used to explicitly best describe what is being referred to. However the narrator, which was given a name that is not their real name but only to classify their statues in the society is already an example of how the novel shows the limitation of literature and how a certain word gives power to the society. For instance, the narrator is named, Offred, which shows the service she contributes to the society will gain the respect of others to her. The limitations of literature also shows in the novel through the use of neologism, biblical languages, and language musing.

They used it different in how the people talked, and felt, and when they received

All these things affected the narration of the novel. A number of lenses also had a role in affecting the narration, such as the childish lens, cultural lens, and insecurity lens. As mentioned before, the cultural lens shows the negative language of Esperanza towards her cultural inheritance. The childish lens shows that Esperanza is a child since she uses an informal and childlike language.

There is no one true Beowulf. Each representation and translation of Beowulf tells its own unique story. Even though renditions are derived from the original Old English oral poem, altering minor details based on perception results in differing stories. In the Old English version of the poem that is side by side with Heaney’s translation, the original scribe describes Grendel’s mother as a “he” rather than using a feminine pronoun. Both Seamus Heaney’s translation and Robert Zemeckis’s depiction display versions of Grendel’s mother derived from the Old English version.

Junot Diaz begins his book with an epigraph by Sandra Cisneros in which it states : Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times.

Previously dialects were used in literature fulfilling specific purposes like comedy or laughter only exploited by low characters: For the most part, the conspicuous vulgarity of dialect-even its funny look on the printed page-disqualified it as a serious language for the representation of personality in the nineteenth-century English novel. (Sabin 1987:16) During the Victorian age, writers have become more and more aware about non- standard language and different varieties of speech in a standard text; there was a heavy use of dialect in standard novels. Novelists differ in their use of dialect fulfilling different purposes that is to fit with the different sociolinguistic factors such as age, gender, style, social context; or following the movement of realism depicting regional,

Edgar Allan Poe, writing in the first person as an unnamed man, uses syntax to express the idea that the narrator is unstable. Though the narrator spends most of the passage convincing his reader that he is sane, his words have an adverse effect because of the structure. Abrupt sentences and repetition show that the narrator is unable to clearly communicate his thoughts. His words are littered with punctuation marks that

The reason it structured like this was for the reader to get different versions of the story from different characters. This is why it's called a story within a story. In the novel it states,” We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves such a friend ought to be do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. (Shelley, 14) This is Walton showing similar feelings the creature had.

Throughout history, we have seen that being black in America comes with the realization that you may have to learn to navigate the world differently than other groups. This can be confusing when you’re trying to find yourself in a world that doesn't truly see you. Along the way you may end up losing your individuality and end up trying to escape reality. In the novel, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and the memoir Black Boy by Richard Wright we are introduced to two African American characters struggling with their identities and their invisibility. While both narrators are trying to develop a sense of identity, the way they deal with their external circumstances differs greatly.

Emotions are something that many people find hard to talk about, especially if these emotions create a negative outlook on the person expressing them. Many novels will bring up these emotions in characters, but not address the feelings directly. However, there is one book that develops that emotional connection between the reader and the characters, but that book has come close to being banned. The book The Catcher in the Rye has created controversy over the sexual content, the illegal substance use, and the mature language. However, the book has also been recognized for its blunt honesty and open speech.

(Finlay, pg. 555) When compared to the older book written, Davis does several things to make her book sound different from the others, such as making the main character of the book Bertrande de Rols rather than Coras’s main character, Arnaud or how the relationship of Bertrande and Arnaud was logical. However this makes Davis’s writing sound completely different story than from how Coras wrote his.

What are some other strengths and weaknesses of the text? The author expresses a lot of the speech between characters as quotations one after another without saying who said it so at times, it was difficult to follow who said what. You really had to focus on who’s in the conversation and where the conversation is taking place. 6.

LiteraryDevices states indirect or implicit characterization “is a more subtle way of introducing the character to the audience. The audience has to deduce for themselves the characteristics of the character by observing his/her thought process, behavior, speech, way of talking, appearance, and way of communication with other characters and also by discerning the response of other characters” (Literary Devices, 2014). Ann Garvin lets us get to know her characters through not only the eyes of others but also through themselves; this is seemingly the indirect way of things. We know that Lucy has a low self-esteem so she often describes herself as ugly or gives us a sense that she feels this way about herself, “She’d never been able to come to terms with the name her mother bestowed upon her. There was nothing luscious about her.

Rough Draft People will judge others based on looks, stereotypes, and the opinions that other have of those around them. People will try to change their image to fit into a social group that they do not belong in. Stereotypes are everywhere and sometimes people tend to change their opinion of someone based on what people say or the actions that people do. Everyone will have a different opinion of others for what people say, or then people can change so they won 't hit those stereotypes. Throughout the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy 's perspective of Johnny, Dally, and Darry changes.

Despite the movie following the book very closely, there were several obvious and notable differences between the movie interpretation and the novel version of The Scarlet Letter. The most noticeable difference was the absence of the character, Mistress Hibbins. Mistress Hibbins appeared several times in the novel, acting as a temptation for Hester, and is often described as a witch or agent of the Devil. The second most major difference in the movie, was the lack of energy in Pearl. In the novel, Pearl Prynne was described as a "demon child" on several occasions.