Comment on language/style of the narrative.

The novel is written using fairly simple language with extremely simple sentence and paragraph construction. Most sentences are very short and direct, and the paragraphing is typical. In fact, the text, devoid of implied meaning, reads somewhat like a child's storybook in its simplicity. Although there are subtleties within some segments of the narrative, in the vast majority of the text the objective meanings are straightforward and obvious. For example, when the narrative describes the process of turning a live chicken into food, the process is detailed as killing, plucking, gutting, apportioning, and frying. The resulting pieces are then placed in a waxed paper bucket. As if this description were not concise enough, an illustration of a live chicken and an illustration of a waxed paper bucket full of fried chicken are also provided to remove any supposed ambiguity.