Thursday, May 17, 2012

Journal 78: Style


Toni cade Bambara’s style is more like a young teenager who speaks roughly and lacks vocabulary, and use very rough slang that I have never heard of, she also skips a lot of useless words and just skip to the main point, not like old people trying to tell stories about their young lives or anything like that. She is always frequently using slang words. She describes things briefly and very fastly, without going into too much details. The old guy from the “the treasure of lemon brown “ however, talk like any other old people, with a certain dignity and a little bit of insult an each sentence, he refers to the kid as “you youngster” or something similar to that, and have certain African americian accent that was spelled out in the book. He is also homeless and very dirty, but he does not really care at all except his treasure, which is newspaper article from which his son ahd kept and has eben treated as his most important possession ever since. He didn’t really care for anything much but is very stubborn, very much like squeaky. Both of them fought back no matter the ods, and care about something very much, the old man his treasure and squeaky his brother and his medals

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