Style Mapping

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, uses the coarsely sophisticated literal language which accurately conveys the dialect of the narrator. The narrator is Scout, a girl growing up in the segregated south in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. She writes in long seemingly run-on sentences, but uses words like "assuaged" and "apothecary," while also saying blunt ignorant comments like "If General Jackson hadn't run the Creeks up the creek." Contrastingly, Charles Dickens' David Copperfield uses the elegant, lyrical, and archaic language of Victorian England. The first sentence begins with "Whether I shall." Even more different is the style of language that is in George Orwell's 1984. He uses what he thinks to be "futuristic" language that has many made up words and long seemingly run-on sentences that are more sophisticated than those of To Kill A Mockingbird.