King uses language that paints a great picture of Marshall and the events as they lived/occurred. The description of the lynching victim on Page 3 in the prologue - "... the indentation of the rope that had cut into the flesh below the dead man's chin... the bullet holes riddling his body..." really catches the eye, and makes the reader realize why this cause was so personal to Marshall. His further description of Marshall in both an informative and casual way sort of personalize him to me. Like the other post stated, King makes Marshall an everyman, a character all people can relate to because instead of crafting just a factual book, a book that just states what happened in this case, King blends history and storytelling with casual language that keep the reader locked into the story and rooting for Marshall as if he were a character in a novel. So in summation, King uses the aforementioned casual and informative language to make a sort of nonfiction novel.
King uses language that paints a great picture of Marshall and the events as they lived/occurred. The description of the lynching victim on Page 3 in the prologue - "... the indentation of the rope that had cut into the flesh below the dead man's chin... the bullet holes riddling his body..." really catches the eye, and makes the reader realize why this cause was so personal to Marshall. His further description of Marshall in both an informative and casual way sort of personalize him to me. Like the other post stated, King makes Marshall an everyman, a character all people can relate to because instead of crafting just a factual book, a book that just states what happened in this case, King blends history and storytelling with casual language that keep the reader locked into the story and rooting for Marshall as if he were a character in a novel. So in summation, King uses the aforementioned casual and informative language to make a sort of nonfiction novel.
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