comment on style / language

Young students can easily understand the straightforward language of this work. However, the subject matter may not be appropriate for some due to the compelling descriptions of suffering and death during the battles.

When the characters speak, it is often with a dialogue appropriate to the region of their origin or the level of their education. Idiomatic language is mostly centered in the writings of his mother and Charlie himself. One other example is Swenson, who converses much like Charley. The officers' speech is formal and without slang or other intonations, and it is generally limited to brief commands. Nelson's speech is also much like Charley's, though it carries a sense of reckless innocence. The Rebel on watch that Charley talks with definitely has a southern drawl. He sounds like and is portrayed as an uneducated farm boy.