McCarthy’s Diction in Child of God: By Talia Bodner



In the excerpt from Cormac McCcarthy’s Child of God the author creates diction which is both different and southern. McCarthy describes the main character: “He’d just shoot directly he seen the feathers fly you couldn’t tell it.” The author’s diction even includes fragments: “him with a rifle you with a shot gun.” The author describes the character as handy with a rifle: “we’d never seen the like of shootin.’” As shown McCarthy’s diction in this novel is a unique type of slang.