comment on style / language

Jessie Ann Foley tells her novel “The Carnival at Bray” in language that is gentle, average, and straightforward. This is done for at least two reasons. First, the novel is aimed at an audience of young adults, mainly teens, and so the language must be written at a level which they can easily understand. Secondly, the novel itself is about the experiences of a sixteen year-old girl who is sweet but average, and the language employed to tell her story is thus appropriate to her age, and is gentle and average. This lends a degree of realism to the novel, making the characters and situations much more believable for the reader.