An Analysis of Diction in Cormas McCarthy's Child of God

All authors use their own example of diction. In the excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, the author displays diction which is both original and southern. In the first sentence McCathy displays the diction of original: “He had that rifle from when he was just almost a boy.” The author also uses a character that enjoys hunting, “Had a boy out in the middle field with a crateful and he’d holler and the boy’d let one slip and he’d raise his rifle and blam, he’d dust it.” Another display of diction is a southern style: “I had a little old gal on my arm kept lookin up at me about like a poleaxed calf.” As shown, McCarthy expresses his own type of diction in the excerpt from Child of God.