In the book he says he read every book in the orphanage
library and, presumably, learned his great vocabulary there..
He's being portrayed as a self-taught person. This totally
makes sense since he was probably not treated very well by
his teachers (due to his unexplainable tic).
randy
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:07:06 +0000 "Carrie Pruett" <
pruettc@hotmail.com> writes:
>- I'm not sure I buy the language of the novel as
the
> voice of
> the character. The narrator grew up in an orphanage
in Brooklyn and
> dropped
> out of high school to go work for a small time
hood.
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