![]() ![]() Take a look at this doozy, for example: "He's still got air and he's not struggling and he's got willow trees and he can think and he's not in pain" (5.10). Guess what? That's just the way Joe thinks- especially, when he's anxious, which is pretty often. Now, we don't always think in complete sentences, right? Sometimes, we just think in words or sound or images, all pretty loosely connected. Here's how it works: a writer tries to mimic on the page the way a person thinks and the ways that words and thoughts are associated when a person thinks. ![]() Stream-of-consciousness was a technique associated with the Modernist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. While he might not use any words that will send you running to a dictionary, his insistence on mimicking the language of an average Joe (especially when that average Joe can't speak and is confined to thought alone) means that Joe often thinks in sentences that run together or that are only punctuated by exclamations of "O Jesus Christ." No, Dalton Trumbo isn't missing the punctuation keys on his typewriter. ![]()
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