That Was Then, This Is Now | The Unrealistic Language Used by Teenagers
In the following excerpt, Malone discusses the unrealistic language used by teenagers in Hinton's books.
In That Was Then, This is Now “golden dangerous Mark,” the narrator’s best buddy, also discovers that he is mistaken about his parentage—his real father turns out to be another rodeo cowboy. Bryon tells us about it like this: “Mark had lived at my house ever since I was ten and he was nine and his parents shot each other in a drunken argument.” Later we learn the argument was over Mark’s parentage; the shots were fatal, and the child, hiding under the porch, heard it all. As Mark recalls: “And then they start yelling and I hear this sound like a couple of...
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