Hello, everyone. I was just wondering opinions. When you write a story in first person, what is your ideas and takes on using the actual voice of the character. What I mean is using grammatical mistakes on purpose such as "me and my sister loved..." We all know it would be "my sister and I." What do you guys think of this? Another example would be in the book Precious or The Catcher In The Rye[/b]. Do you think this enriches the content or just makes the novel 'stupid' and complicated to read. I will admit, I did fine [i]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn difficult when I was in high school because of this style.
I'm currently writing a novel with a mix of first person present tense and first person past tense. I'm trying figure out how I want the teller to speak. Of course, he is very smart and 'literate' however, I'm just not sure if I should slip in a few mistakes of his speaking.
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