Shiloh | Literary Qualities
Shiloh is written in first-person present tense, with Marty as the narrator. Although the unusual style takes a few pages to get used to, soon the reader skims over the "I say" and "Ma tells me" phrasings and gets into the story.
Naylor employs a mild dialect, dropping the final "g" on words such as "doin'," "lookin'," and "laughin'." More effective in portraying the hill people of Friendly are the regional habits she highlights: Marty's sister dipping her bread in cold tea; eating fried rabbit; the neighbors' ritual of passing the time of day before getting down to the business at...
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