Understanding Holden's Idiolect
To understand the protagonists idolect, we have to think of what affects it. One cause can be Context:
- His age - 16, use of colloquial language
- His Education - been kicked out of serveral schools and now Pencey
- Where the novel is set - America 1950s
- Where he is from
Use of Dialogue and First person
Dialogue
- Can meet the others - Get other persons' opinions rather than just Holdens |
First Person
- The use of YOU - Gets us involved and included - Feel privledged - Empathise with him - Use of I - Talks to himself - Gets us involved |
Writing in Holden's Idiolect
I came into old Pavey's lesson today. That's the mistake I will never make again! Talking about how some phonies suck snot out of the babies nose because they can only breathe out their nose or something like that. It sounded like he got a bang out of it. The thing that I was good at was thinking of something else whilst pretending to listen in class. Thinking about this goddam composition due for biology, I mean spending two days in old Richmond Park measuring a goddam bush and recording it into the goddam composition.
I decided to horse around and think of my birthday comping up and how I would do my make up an' all. Thinking what would match my blue dress, which was only 7 quid, I really did get a big bang out of that, I really did.
I decided to horse around and think of my birthday comping up and how I would do my make up an' all. Thinking what would match my blue dress, which was only 7 quid, I really did get a big bang out of that, I really did.