1.04 Coloquial Language

1. Colloquial Language: pg. 73 paragraph 5 “Shuddup, shuddup,” Sherman shouted. It is spelled the way a southern man would say it.
Pg. 72 paragraph 3 “No, I never tasted caviar, nor champagne either.” The grammar is not correct, which is the way most people talk in casual conversation.
2. Comic Relief: pg. 240-241 Paragraph 6 “I said, quit poking me,” the Judge shouted again. … “Please don’t cut me off.” In the midst of Malone dying the Judge is making a fool of himself on the radio.
Pg. 224 paragraph 7 “Gentlemen.” Looking around the drugstore, Malone realized there were few gentlemen there. It’s funny because Malone addressed them as gentlemen when they are nothing of the sort.
3. Imagery:
Pg. 121 First Paragraph: But although
11 Second Paragraph: The boy was medium sized with a muscular body and a face that was sullen in repose. … But his eyes were bluish-gray, and set in the dark face they had a bleak, violent look. It is describing how Sherman looks.
4. Irony:
Pg. 166 paragraph 1-2: To Sherman the Judge talked no crazier than many another Southern politician. Crazy, crazy, crazy. All of them! Sherman did not forget that the Judge had once been a congressman, thus holding one of the highest offices in the United States. The crazy men are the leaders of all the others.
Pg. 224 paragraph 6 “I guess it is supposed to be me,” he said in a deadened voice… “I don’t want to endangered my soul.” … “Ill do it. Be glad to. It’s right next to my house.” It is ironic that Malone is at a meeting full of men who would be proud to murder Sherman, but Malone is worried about his
68 Third Paragraph: Jester held out a package of cigarettes, which he proffered courteously. “I smoke like a chimney,” he said Sherman is comparing the amount that he smokes to a chimney, which smokes constantly.
Pg 119 paragraph 4: “If you continue to eat like firehorses…” Mrs. Malone
8. Symbol:
Pg. 30-31 paragraph 2: “A pink mule?” … “it’s a cloud.” … “this picture is sort of – symbol- I guess you might say. All my life I’ve seen things like you and the family wanted me to see them. And now this summer I don’t see things as I used to- and I have different feelings different thoughts.” Jester says that the painting is a symbol for his different opinion from his grandfather because his grandfather sees a cloud and he sees a pink mule.
Pg.82-83: “I’m just telling you I hear every teeniest vibration in the whole diatonic scale from here,” … “About my race and how I register every single vibration that happens to those of my race. I call it my black book.” Sherman uses the piano as a symbol for his race and how he knows everything about both.
9. Mood:
Pg. 4 paragraph 7: From an adjacent office a child was crying and the voice, half strangled with terror and protest, seemed not to come from a distance, but to be part of his own agony when he asked: “Am I going to die with this – leukemia?” You are supposed to have sympathy for Malone and realize his terror of hearing this