Each year the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to thirteen people for achievements in newspaper, literature, online journalism, and musical composition in the United States. In 1939, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won this award for her fiction novel The Yearling. Rawlings was born in 1896 in the Brookland neighborhood where she gained an interest in writing at the age of six. In her younger years she submitted stories to local newspapers and won prizes for her work around the age of sixteen. From such a young age, Rawlings aspired to be a successful writer and achieved that goal in 1939 when she published The Yearling, a well-known novel. Through her use of intricate syntax, incredible sensory details, and creative figurative language in her novel, Rawlings earned herself the…show more content… One example of syntax can be found on page 224. “It struck the yard trees with a hissing, and the mullberries bent their boughs to the ground, and the chinaberry creaked in its brittleness.” This is an extremely useful example of syntax due to the fact that the sentence structure is longer in length, which allows Rawling to go into depth about the storm and the damage it does. Another example of syntax can be found on page 225. “Jody and the fawn darted inside. Jody stood gasping. He wiped the water from his eyes. the fawn blinked.” These sentences are an excellent use of syntax because the short and brisk sentence structure creates a very straight forward approach when describing the actions Jody and the fawn took during the storm. Another example of syntax that was useful in this piece was on page 6 when Rawlings states, “Up over down, up, over, down, the flutter-mill was enchanting.” This short and repetitive syntax was used intentionally to stimulate the motion of the flutter-mill, thus, showing the importance. Through the use of Rawlings powerful syntax, she earned herself the Pulitzer Prize in
