Skloot even says that she grew through the process of writing the book because of all of the things juxtaposed between her and the Lackses in general. ... Colloquial diction is the use of informal dialect in writing. ... Colloquial diction is very important in a book with dialog due to the connection it creates with the reader. ... Skloot appeals to the readers emotions when talking about her own, while writing the story. ... Rebecca Skloot uses solid family prevalence and juxtaposes the youth and growing period of both Deborah and herself, while using colloquialism style writing and pathos....

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When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would. ... Obviously, the novel no more addresses the literal blood, bones, and skin of a reader than these other forms of writing do. ... The novel addresses the "whole" man not as literal blood and issue but as a collection of incongruous and contradictory experiences; this "whole" is the one that Lawr...

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