Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1822 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Style That Grows Up
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The idea
The novel's language matures as its protagonist does, so a later passage reads nothing like the first page. An extract from it could be simple or difficult depending where it was taken, which is a caution against generalising from one passage to a writer.
In practice
The prose ages with the boy.
Where people slip
One extract does not characterise a writer.
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