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side 38:
Ideiomer:
- ”I thought I’d go down in a fit:”

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Language and style (Valentina, Katrine, Rebecca, Klara)

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Language and style (Valentina, Katrine, Rebecca, Klara)

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page 38

Examples of slang:
- fiver
- green-back
- hoss-tods
- ten-bob note
- blower

Personification: "as if they were alive and wanted to get back into the dry snug drainpipe(...)

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Language:
- Frequent use of metafores, similes, idioms and slang
- Seemingly an easy read but the use of figurative language makes it more complex than at first sight
- Informal language

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The narrator is 1. person and is a young man called Smith. Everything is narrated through Smith´s thoughts and observations.

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Allan Sillitoe was born in 1928 and left at fourteen.

Became an aittraffic control assistant in 1945

Spent two years in active service in Malaya as a wireless operator

In 1949 he became invalid and got a 100% invalid pension

He has lived in London, France and Spain.

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- The story is easy to read but it has a lot of idioms in it.
- It is very informal language with a lot of figuaritve speech.

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-He use metaphors
-Slangs
-Use epoken language
-Informal
-Sounds like lower class
-By the language we get a better understanding of what kind of person he is

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- The story takes place in Essex (South of England) in a juvey called Borstal. The main value of Borstal is to educate the inmates. They do so by doing sports for example

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Alan Sillitoe
- He is one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s
- He disliked this label
- He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
- He is a British author from Nottingham
- He was born i 1928 and died in 2010 = 82 years old

Narrative Technique/point of view:
- First person narrater.
- It is the main character who tell the story

Setting:
- It takes places  at Borstal in Essex in the 1960s

Language:
- Easy to read
- Visual language
- There is use of metaphors
- It is informal
- Standard british english
- There is both direct and indirect language

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- He was a British author
- He was born in Nottingham
- He left school at the age of 14,  having failed the entrance examination to grammar school
- He was one of the most importent writers of the postwar era.
- He has lived in France and Spain during his life.

Narrative Technique / point of view

It is a first person narrator, whose name is Smith.
You only get his view on things, his thoughts and opinions.

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The narrator is a 1. person narrator called Smith
The story is biased because it is told by Smith, whom the story is about. The narrator is unreliable

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- metaphors/idioms ("dead as a doornail")
- slang
- Use of spoken language
-  First pers. narrator
- Silly comparisons
- Opinionated (The governor is stupid, he's smart)

Easy to read, but with a lot of idioms.