Narration and the vocabulary

The story is narrated as if someone were telling it to you aloud. There are lots of sentences that aren't really sentences, like the opening one: "One dollar and eighty-seven cents". There's no verb or action in that sentence; it just states a sum of money. We need more information about what that sum of money "means" or "does" in order to understand the sentence. We get that information in the next sentence: "That was all". Although the second sentence at least has a verb, it's also technically not a complete sentence: the subject, "that," is unspecified, and only makes sense given the previous sentence. Looking at those first two sentences clues us in on how the story's style tends to operate as a whole: lots of short sentences that often depend on other sentences in order to work. This technique has a way of weaving together the story across individual sentences and gives it a flow that would be broken apart by writing in more complete, self-contained sentences. It's typical of the ways we tell stories when we speak. This style keeps listeners hanging on from one sentence to the next. It also prevents them from getting lost in overly long sentences. Since when you're listening to a story you can't go back and read a sentence again, it's important that you don't get lost. If you get caught on a particular sentence it might make you lose the thread of the whole story.

Vocabulary of text combines colloquial words to add the informality and emotiveness of the character’s speech and to indicate social and speech peculiarities of the main heroes. Also, there are some idiomatic expressions such as “platinum fob”, “meretricious ornamentation”, “truant schoolboy” etc.. The usage of nouns, adjectives and also the adverbs are dominant. As it is thought, author tries to define nouns with adjectives, and define the verbs with adverbs as a result, he reaches a well-prepared , easy to read story for his readers. Details in descriptions may be considered as a result of these major word class usage, however the author does not avoid using minor ones such as prepositions and conjunctions. These are also often used. Dialects and slang also take place in the text.