The Yearling

In 1939, a remarkable woman, won a remarkable prize. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was awarded a Pulitzer prize for all of her hard work on her novel The Yearling. I believe that this award was well deserved because when looking at the great use of syntax, figurative language, and sensory details, I was astounded. One thing that sets The Yearling aside from any other novel, is the constant use of syntax that is put into this novel. Throughout the whole novel, the syntax is immaculate. However, if I had

flash, whipped open the shutters, and tore off the sash. In The Yearling, winds of this caliber are described by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling is a tale of a young boy named Jody living in central Florida as the only surviving child of his parents. His parents are convinced, by Jody, to let him keep a fawn to a doe his father had recently harvested. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 because of her poetic depiction and description through

winning the Heisman Trophy. In that regard, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is comparable to Nile Kinnick. Kinnick won the Heisman in 1939 for his hard work, dedication, and ability to play football. Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her novel, The Yearling, for her deliberate use of sensory details, figurative language, and artful syntax. The appliance of sensory details throughout the novel enhance the story by depicting a vivid image of the characters and their situations. On page 224, Rawlings

a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Yearling, published in 1938. She won this award not only for the brilliant thoughts she put into words but also for the way she structured the words. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings obtained her Pulitzer Prize in part for her use of sensory details, figurative language, and syntax in her novel The Yearling. One reason why Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deservedly won a Pulitzer Prize, is because of her use of sensory detail in The Yearling. Sensory details are details that help

literature. It’s not awarded to any ordinary writing. In the year 1939, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize for her highly acclaimed book The Yearling. Rawlings’s artful use of syntax, sensory detail, and effective figurative language throughout her book makes it more than worthy of a Pulitzer Prize. Rawlings’s artful use of syntax in The Yearling is one of the key components that won it the Pulitzer Prize. Some of the most powerful uses of syntax in the book correlate the structure of a sentence

“Somewhere beyond the sinkhole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.” A quote from none other than Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of the book The Yearling who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 because of her use of sensory details, syntax, and figurative language. Throughout her novel, Rawlings artistically illustrated sensory details very well to explain what the boy was feeling, what the boy was tasting, and what the boy was smelling

certificate, and a gold medal. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 with her clever uses of figurative language, sensory details, and syntax. Figurative language is one of the devices used to give this piece structure, structure is given to this piece by figurative language. One example of figurative language is personification in many instances such as page seven of The Yearling. “ The palm-leaf paddles were frail but they made a brave show of strength rippling

iguana can be an enormous amount of fun but having a deer as a pet is a completely different story. The yearling is a novel about a boy who befriends a deer and takes it in as a pet. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 for her use of syntax, figurative language, and sensory details. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 for her use of syntax. In paragraph 3 she says, “He slept.” This short sentence adds contrast

are more than 2,400 entries submitted for a Pulitzer Prize each year and only twenty one will win. Those are not promising odds, but in 1939, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings conquered those odds. Rawlings’ accepted the prize for her acclaimed novel, The Yearling. The story did not receive the award, but rather Rawlings’ incredible writing. Rawlings’ use of figurative language, sensory details, and syntax elucidates the main character’s experiences and thoughts throughout the novel. The main character, Jody

Themes in The Yearling The main theme in The Yearling is that it is not an easy thing to become a man .There are many ways to prove theme of The Yearling. But three ways to prove the theme throughout the story are indirect statements, character change, and symbolism. Another way to prove the theme in the story is symbolism. On page 398, Penny said, “You’ve done come back different.You’ve done takened a punishment.You ain’t a yearlin’ no longer Jody.” Also, on page 400, it said a boy and