Grammatical Style in Lumpkin’s The Making of a Southerner :: Lumpkin Making Southerner

Effective Use of Grammatical Style in Lumpkins The reservation of a SouthernerKatharine Du Pre Lumpkin has many effective uses of grammatical style. In the first full paragraph on page 86 of The Making of a Southerner this is evidenced. She begins the denounce with an adverbial which ties this paragraph to the previous one. Lumpkin uses the quotation tint up the Negroes to cause the reader to feel like he/she is collapse during this duration period. The quotation draws the reader into the paragraph because of its status as a first-hand account, which lends credibility to the argument being presented. Later in the first sentence Lumpkin uses a dash as a sentence interrupter. This pause places practically emphasis on the formulate after the dash, causing the reader to score it more weight. Indeed, this phrase is the focus of the entire paragraph, and Lumpkin has adroitly set it apart. succeeding(a) the first sentence, Lumpkin uses questions to enhance the feeling of there-ness. In other words, Lumpkin presents the material in an argumentative fashion in order to draw the reader foster into the mind-set of the white male of whom she speaks. Lumpkin uses her position as narrator to measuring rod back and give someone else a juncture. She argues as though she herself were a white male in the late 1800s to early 1900s. This The quotes continue to incite her argumentative style by giving examples of the names and rumors floating during this time now past. On and on Lumpkin extorts the reader to feel what it is like to be a scargond white male after the Civil War. inquiry after question repetitively persuade the reader to vividly recall the drunken Negroes . . . burning down plantation homes as well as the armed recruits, former slaves roaming the countryside demanding of white men to get their vehicles off the bridle-path to make room for these uniformed freedmen (86). The imagery skillfully hidden in the questionnaire is astounding.Then, of a sudden, a dash appears to bring the reader full circle. We are now aware again that the narrator is asserting a voice of her own with the small apposition the rumor said so (86). This phrase gives the reader the sense that Lumpkin now disagrees with this attitude once held by her father. It belies the draw that Lumpkin is apparently trying to hide for an unbiased second-hand account of the period.