AHWOSG - Structure of sentences:

Sentence types and function

Minor: "bump."
Simple: "I went to Tesco."
Compound: "I went to Tesco but forgot my shopping list."
Complex: "I went to Tesco. In order to get there, I had to drive."
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Page 14 - "I have plans for them... i'll run them over with my car."

• Various declaratives - to show what he would like to do to his neighbours and people who are looking in and know there situation.
• Hyphens used with embedded clauses - punctuation used relating to his state of mind (wild)
• Exclamatory sentences used to exaggerate his imagination of the people he hurts are saying.
• "I'll run them over with my car." - simple sentence, only one used within the paragraph. Sums up his emotion, of anger, scared, upset.
• Mainly a lot of on-going complex sentences to link to the complexity of the ways in which he wants to hurt these people who know his situation.
• "nosy", "inquisitive", "pitying" - lexis used linking to grief or an after death situation; also the italics of the neighbours speaking are related to these words. "I hear she's" (nosy); "what will happen to that little poor bo-" (inquisitive); "Jesus Christ I'm sorry" (pity).
• A lot of the complex sentences and description relates to his continuous anger towards these people who are gossiping; and it also adds to his detail to his fantasy of killing everyone who knows.
• The detail when he explains what he is going to do to those people; show his wild imagination/fantasy and also show his emotions.
• brief psychopathic moment; led on by a family walking by- which leads to him being paranoid and fantasising what he is going to do to those who knows.
• "I have plans for them" - he's thought about it a lot, obsession with death due to his situation.
• These fantasy's occur while mother is having a nosebleed - distracting mechanism.
• Emotional state - fragmented broken mind, like the embedded clauses. First time in the book displaying his real emotion; imaginative life he has, he is a dreamer.
• Punctuation used to show what his state of mind was like during that time.
• The detail of the pain "I pull out hearts and intestines" - symbolises his mother and her pain. He wants them to feel his mothers pain.
• Violence - normality, choice of verbs he uses to show his violence. Violent imagery.
• interrogative "can't you see it?" to interrupt his own narrative; to check if the reader is following his train of thought.