Comparing Jane Eyre (An Old Style Story)

) To Kes (A New Style Story) Essay, Research Paper

Comparing Two Extracts From Novels From Point Of View Of Language And Punctuation?Jane Eyre? is a book set further back in time and the language used in it is more ?old style?, eg. ?And if I were in your place I should dislike her.? In modern language we would say that morel like: ?If I was in your place I wouldn?t like her.? This language is used in the book ?kes? which is set in a more present day.

The puntuation is totally different in both of the books as well, for example in ?Jane Eyre? there are longer sentences, there are also more colons, semi-colons, and comers used were we might use full stops. Eg. ?My attention was now called by Miss Smith desiring me to hold a skein of thread: while she was winding it, she talked to me from time to time, asking me weather I had ever been to school before, weather I could mark, stitch, knit, etc; till she dismissed me, I could not pursue my observations on Miss Scratcherd?s movements.? That was one of the sentences from ?Jane Eyre?.

This is one of the longest sentences from ?kes?: ?He slashed the stick in front of their chests, making the air swish in its wake, then he turned around and leaned straight-armed on the mantelshelf, shaking his head. The boys winked at each other. That was one of the longest senances in ?kes? and its half the size of a normal one in ?Jane Eyre?, it also used a lot less comers, and it didn?t have any colons or semi-colons in it either. The words were shorter and the sentences sounded more modern too.