On the first page of a novel, we can know many information, sometimes the writer already show us what is the novel about on the first page. We can find the information from 18 beauties.
About style, I think it is normal. There are not very much long sentences or complex sentences on the first page. The tone is ironic, we can know he wasn’t pleased with the life and complain a lot. The mood is how it feels about what it’s telling, in this novel it sounds like a teenager boy who was impatient and has a lot of thought about things around him. We also can know the time frame, it’s some stuff that happened to him around Christmas. About the diction, the writer used a lot of words like “crap”, “goddam” “madman”, which is not a teenager’s style. These words can tell us the narrator is a traitorous boy. We can know the narrator is the main character himself. This novel is first-person narrator not third-person narrator.
When I read the catcher in the rye first time, I didn’t realize we can find so many information about this book and from the first page I have already knew what will the story tell us about.
About style, I think it is normal. There are not very much long sentences or complex sentences on the first page. The tone is ironic, we can know he wasn’t pleased with the life and complain a lot. The mood is how it feels about what it’s telling, in this novel it sounds like a teenager boy who was impatient and has a lot of thought about things around him. We also can know the time frame, it’s some stuff that happened to him around Christmas. About the diction, the writer used a lot of words like “crap”, “goddam” “madman”, which is not a teenager’s style. These words can tell us the narrator is a traitorous boy. We can know the narrator is the main character himself. This novel is first-person narrator not third-person narrator.
When I read the catcher in the rye first time, I didn’t realize we can find so many information about this book and from the first page I have already knew what will the story tell us about.