The Yearling Essay In 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published her Pulitzer prize winning novel The Yearling. The plot involves a young boy who moves to Florida after the Civil War with his family, who are very poor. He falls asleep in the forest and befriends a baby fawn. A year later, the boy and fawn are still friends, and a large storm comes. The storm evolves into a hurricane, which foreshadows some dark events to come. As an author, Rawlings One reason as to why Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize is her use of sensory details throughout her work. As the boy wakes up from his sleep, he begins to look around the forest. Rawlings depicts what he sees in her writing very vividly, saying, “There was no black boles of live oaks, no glossy
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Rawlings begins to describe the boy’s actions as be prepared to sleep on the forest floor. Before he falls asleep, she writes, “There was an instant when the boy hung at the edge of a high bank made of the soft fluff of broom sage, and the rain frog and the starry dripping of the flutter-mill hung with him.” This sentence is lengthy and complex with more things happening in it at once. The boy is about to fall asleep, but he is still awake, which is why she uses the words hung as well. He is between sleep and rest, partially awake. He is still noticing things, such as the rain frog and flutter-mill. She then uses the same syntax technique to narrate the boy into the final stages of sleep. When he is finally asleep, Rawlings contrasts her intricate syntax for a more simple construction, which reads, “He slept.” When he is asleep, there is nothing elaborate to write about. That long explanation mentioned before that took long sentences to clarify mimic the actions of the person she is writing about. While he is sleeping, he is not doing anything, so the sentence is short and to the point. Her use of this skill makes the writing have a mood, tone, and invokes interest in the readers, which is why syntax is a major component as to why Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize for her
Rawlings begins to describe the boy’s actions as be prepared to sleep on the forest floor. Before he falls asleep, she writes, “There was an instant when the boy hung at the edge of a high bank made of the soft fluff of broom sage, and the rain frog and the starry dripping of the flutter-mill hung with him.” This sentence is lengthy and complex with more things happening in it at once. The boy is about to fall asleep, but he is still awake, which is why she uses the words hung as well. He is between sleep and rest, partially awake. He is still noticing things, such as the rain frog and flutter-mill. She then uses the same syntax technique to narrate the boy into the final stages of sleep. When he is finally asleep, Rawlings contrasts her intricate syntax for a more simple construction, which reads, “He slept.” When he is asleep, there is nothing elaborate to write about. That long explanation mentioned before that took long sentences to clarify mimic the actions of the person she is writing about. While he is sleeping, he is not doing anything, so the sentence is short and to the point. Her use of this skill makes the writing have a mood, tone, and invokes interest in the readers, which is why syntax is a major component as to why Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize for her