Diction

Diction is how the author of a book chooses the style of speech she wants her characters to portray and how she wants them to react to certain things.Kaye Gibbons, author of the book "Ellen Foster" uses very precise language to describe how she wants her main character Ellen to get her information and feelings. In the book Ellen is only an 11 year old girl so her language depicts that of a young child that really does not understand much about the world around her. For example in the book Ellen describes the washing machine in her home as the "as a thing, where you put the dishes in a thing, shut the door, cut it on, and Wa-La they are clean. This quote can make it clear that for a girl of an 11 year old she really is not clear on many things , like the washing machine. The author, Kaye Gibbons most likely made her main character talk and act like this because she wanted to show how unaware and clueless she is about many things of daily life.

By:Allison OHagan, Katherine Papatheodorou, Anastasia Ioannou,