Teenage Skaz summary

Teenage Skaz by David Loger
Teenage Skaz is a writing style that is used in books like The Catcher in The Rye and The Curios Incident at the Dog at Midnight. The Skaz is a Russian word meaning jazz scat singing. This word in English means First person narration in a spoken way rather than writing it. First person narration is when the narrator refers to him/herself as I rather then you. A prime example of this is in the book catcher in the rye, the narrator Holden uses I a lot. Another part of Teenage Skaz is that the main character uses syntax or expressions that most teenagers use. We can look at Holden again because in the book Catcher in the Rye he uses words like Son of a bitch and God dam. Also the narrator explains the story in a spontaneous way rather than a carefully constructed way of thinking. This makes the main narrator more realistic. This way of writing is based off normal day speech, this makes the narrator to have more feeling and more likeable because we can relate to the ideas he is saying. This was used because writers wanted to break away from traditional writing. Teenage Skaz is based off one character by Mark Twain. Huck Finn is a teenage boy, who acts just like a teenage boy. He is rude and asks questions of adult life. This was a breakthrough in writing because it was bold and daring at the time because it broke away from the ideas of scripted dialoged and what not knowing what was ahead of the character. Another narritator that uses Teenage Skaz is Holden Caulfield form J.D Salinger’s book the Catcher in the Rye. Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield a somewhat related. They are both breakaways from Society and they aren’t ready to adults. This means that they haven’t acquired some characteristics of being an adult. An example of this would be that they are too sarcastic and also to rude. Like when Holden says the school he goes to is Phony, Holden uses this word to describe himself. He’s message is clear and direct.
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