Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on COLOQUIALISM IN FICTION
. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 3 page paper discusses the use of regional color and dialect in the short story works of Faulkner, Welty, and O'Connor. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_MBdialect.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
customs, belief systems, and landmarks indigenous to the people and the place in which a story is set. In Flannery OConners work, as well as William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty,
examples abound which show the use of local dialect and setting to provide character description and insight. In OConnors works, Good Country People, and The Life you Save May
be Your Own, she offers clear examples in the protagonists dealings with those around them. For instance, in Good Country People, Joy Hopewell is easily contrasted with her mother and
the tenants who really are good country people. Their language and simple, open candor annoy Joy as she considers herself above them all with her education. However, when a young
Bible salesman comes to the door, he teaches her that she is not as worldly or wise as she makes herself out to be. In fact, though she has deemed
him good country people he is not in the least. The country dialect, of course, adds to the overall assumption that those who speak country bumpkin are stupid and
backward. However, though she speaks excellent English, Joy is shown to be the ignorant one when she is taken advantage of by a country bumpkin. Also, there is the assumption
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subject to the same foibles as anyone
else. However, for all her words, has fallen prey to that assumption. This assumption does not leave her a leg to stand on. Likewise the use of the Southern
dialect is used to portray a setting in which people are trusting and as such are like sheep waiting for the wolves to descend. Descend they do in the guise
...