The Borning Room Literary Qualities

The Borning Room Literary Qualities

The Borning Room is a first-person narrative that uses a flashback to begin a story. Only at the end of the book does the reader realize that this technique has been employed. Fleischman's style is spare, but the writing is enriched through the subtle use of similes, metaphors, and allusions. His fluid prose portrays a picture of one nineteenth-century family in good and bad times. His historical facts are carefully blended.