Be Careful Going Home, The Roads Are Slippy Essay

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, which has greatly affected my language in my younger years and when I go home. Pittsburgh has its own unique words and pronunciation

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-There is a focus on storytelling as a means of healing: "It is the story of my childhood. Now I tell it to you, Xavier, to keep you alive."(35)

Many times the protagonists become the victims of the story and are eventually defeated. This is the case in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road. The protagonist, Xavier Bird, is the victim and is eventually defeated by the powers and doings of the people that he encounters during the war, and also by the uncontrollable forces that act upon him during the course of the war. Ultimately, these two factors overpower him and lead to his emotional defeat.

In most period shows, slang is a way to connect it to the time period and show how people talked then. “The script is relatively devoid of period slang, and it lacks any references to pop culture, political figures, or ‘current events’ that might set the action around 1970”(57) Shows like Rent and Hairspray that use period slang or can be set around a certain time because of it. Company does its best to not put any slang into the show so that it can always be considered in the present like the time and place say in the script. The closest thing to slang that is in the show is when, “Harry offers Robert a Bourbon. Given the decline of ‘brown’ liquors since 1970, it’s more likely that today he’d be offered a beer or wine”(57) However, brown liquors are still around and still widely

Being a native New Yorker from Manhattan myself, I have always wondered why I never picked up this habit of misuse (in addition to many others). It can probably be attributed to the fact that I moved to Staten Island at the age of six and went directly into the first grade. I never went to preschool or kindergarten and already knew how to actually read on the first day of school (my mom taught me herself). My beloved friends, with whom I grew up with all speak with a “Brooklyn accent” and rip the English language apart on a constant basis, including using the term “youse” instead of you as a plural or you all. We all went to the same school, had the same classes and teachers, yet I speak much differently when it comes to grammar, but not the accent. You can tell I am from New York immediately if I ask for a “glass of waader” or a “cup of cawffee”.

Growing up in the south we tend to create and use colorful vocabulary. We have y’all, darn-tootin, fixin-to and among others cattywampus. Cattywampus is a word that I have grown up hearing in my house. To me it means messy, disorganized, and to say the least discombobulated. The etymology of a word does not always have to be symbolic; sometimes there is an actual historical story behind it. My mom still tells me today that my room, car, or myself are all “cattywampus” and that I should fix it.

Three Day Road is a book written by Joseph Boyden, Toronto, Penguin Canada 2005, 384 pages. Joseph’s maternal grandfather and his uncle both served in the First World War. The book is written about history of natives telling us about the hardships of the Frist World War. Joseph’s intent was to honor the Native soldiers who fought in the First World War because many of them did not even get noticed for their great bravery and skill. The War had its way on everyone changing people in the book Three Day Road you can see it between the friendship of Elijah and Xavier and how they both change throughout the story.

Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

Dialect is when people use different words for everyday objects or feelings depending on the area of a country they come from. In some areas of England people say “Innit” instead of “Isn’t it” or “summit” instead of “something”. It may cause confusion if someone says “ave got a pain in my head” instead of, “I’ve got a headache”.

In the article "Disco Rice, and Other Trash Talk" written by Ian Urbina, the sanitation workers developed their own slang. Many people who work as garbage men cannot understand one persons language, or way of speaking. Using slang as a language is easier for all of the workers to communicate as a group. In addition to making it easier to communicate there are also several other reasons why New York workers use slang terms. First of all, the garbage men are working in the hot summer. In paragraph four it says "It makes disgusting items not so disgusting." Using other words like mongo and Disco rice is looking at the trash in a different way. They would no longer have to picture loads of debris. using different words can also be a distraction

Almost anywhere you go in Massachusetts, you will hear the word “wicked”. I even say it at least three times a day. To others it may mean bad, or evil, but to us it is just another describing word for very, or really. Along with saying things differently, people in Massachusetts use the word bubbler

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, is one of the many short stories written by Mrs. Joyce Carol Oates that has become highly recognized. It was inspired by a magazine story about a serial killer. It quickly it became very popular andwas even the basis for the 1985 hit movie, “SmoothTalk”. Like many other short stories and novels written by Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” is a story that is consumed by evil, the theme. In the story evil is projected through the eyes of the characters.(Weinberger 207) Joyce Carol Oates has been labeled by many as a, “writer of psychological realism”(Wegs 69), which is seen in this story. Tied

When it comes to language, it's an open opinion if it’s gotten better or worse. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn there are many examples of language to where I can barely understand. Like on page 292 it says “Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you?- what I tell you up Day on Jackson islan’? I tole you I got a hairy breas’, en what’s de sign in it; en I told you I ben rich wunst, en gwineatwr…” society uses abbreviations such as “brb, ttyl, wyd” etc . And also things such as “gotta, gonna, y'all, em” and many more. That may sound like the worst part but it's actually not. I myself was in a conversation

Also sometimes I use slang words when speaking with my friends. The slang words I use are usually words I pick up from friends. I use these words when I am speaking so I feel closer to them and l accepted, as I speak like one of them. I would never use slang in front of my parents because of the way I fear they may see me. In culture using slang words gives the impression that you are unintelligent and uneducated.