We use the following quotes when talking about voice in Nightjohn. We use a graphic organizer like this.
- “I’m Sarny and they be thinking I’m dumb and maybe up to witchin’ and got a stuck tongue because when I birthed they say I come out wrong, come out all backwards and twixt-and-twinst.”
- “…they be thinking because I don’t make noise and go to twattering all the time that I be dumb.”
- “I’m Sarny and the other part of my name be the same as old Waller who wants to be master but is nothing. Nothing. I don’t back part of my name no more than I count old Waller himself. No more than I count spit.”
- “Waller puts great store in the sticks and watches them like an old hawk watching the chicken pens.”
- “It isn’t for certain how old I am except for the sticks…. By the stick I am going into the same year as all the fingers on both hands, fold them down, then hold up the thumbs.”
- “The house women are fond of leaving the window open and talking all their business right there.”
- “I thinks of all the things I have learned that day and then I tries to add them to the things I learned the day before that. I’ve been doing that as long as I can remember, since I was almost just walking, and I remember all the parts of my life. If there is time of an evening and I haven’t been worked to the bone I can just lay there in the dark and think on all my time and remember it.”
Not what i needed [expletive deleted]
Sorry. Next time, try not to show off your limited vocabulary with expletives.
Some or phrases some or not
I’m confused. Do you mean “some are phrases” or “some or phrases”, as you wrote?
Good book, great quotes
I’m glad the resource helped, and your’re right: it’s a good book.
What is the page # to the first and second one
Sorry, but I’m not sure, and I don’t have a copy of the novel with me at the moment.
[Redacted profanity]!!!
Thank you for your comment. I chose to redact your profanity since it has no place here and since it really does nothing more than embarrass you. In the future, remember that even when you think you’re being an anonymous ninnyhammer, you’re only half correct.