Suffer The Little Children - S :: essays research papers

In this paper, Im going to take a formalist approach to look at language, tone and structure of Suffer the Little Children by Stephen powerfulness. This explanation is not just about a particular teacher or a particular student it is more about a sore ladys state of mind, and my work will give emphasis to the characterization the author utilisations through the text.The first thing I would like to talk about is Kings use of language in this story. He begins by describing Miss Sidley as a small, constantly suffering, gimlet-eyed woman. He also mentioned that she knows she is getting old, and the word Miss before her pee-pee allowed us to know that she is not married. She is an unhappy woman. We can gather what kind of person she is from her reference to the children as monsters, bitches, evils, who have nasty teentsy games. The diction of the story emphasizes wickedness. King uses metaphors, and almost every one of them suggests a likeness with something evil, taking for exampl e the giggling, like the laughter of demons...or they were ringed in a tight little circle, like mourners around an open grave. Irony also exists in this story. Sidley seems to be the ideal teacher, who is efficient at her job and knows how to keep her students quite in class, when genuinely she is the one who has a disturbing behavior and ends up surprising her colleague in school when she is found about to kill one more child. King also used an interesting style to introduce a new character to the story Buddy Jenkins was his name, psychiatry was his game. As soon as we testify it, we immeadiately know he will have a destiny such as Sidleys because that was exactly the way she was introduced (Miss Sidley was her name, teaching was her game). The writer also uses italic theme to emphasize the teachers toughts. However, the presence of one or two loose words in the middle of sentences will contribute to cause an eye effect, to catch the readers concern to those words, such as admi t, change and she.King gave this story a dark tone about which theres nothing cheerful. No colors. Anyone who reads the story will be adequate to see an obscure atmosphere. I would like to mention that the author uses expressions such as unrestful night and solitary dinner througout the text, and the word darkness appears many times.