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Key Examples in Shuggie Bain
Chapter One: 1992, The South Side
Explanation and Analysis—Scottish Dialects:
Stuart makes frequent use of the Glasgow dialect to better situate his novel in a specific time and place. Older or lower-class characters, like Mr. Darling in Chapter 1, have particularly heavy accents:
"Ah jist cannae believe it!" he had said, mostly to himself. "In ma day a person's religion said something about them. Ye came up through the school having to fight yer way there through bus-fulls of cabbage-eating Catholic bastards [...] Now any good lassie will sleep with any dirty Mick as soon as she'd lie with a dog."
Related Themes:
Chapter Three: 1982, Pithead
Explanation and Analysis—Scottish Dialects:
Stuart makes frequent use of the Glasgow dialect to better situate his novel in a specific time and place. Older or lower-class characters, like Mr. Darling in Chapter 1, have particularly heavy accents:
Unlock with LitCharts A+"Ah jist cannae believe it!" he had said, mostly to himself. "In ma day a person's religion said something about them. Ye came up through the school having to fight yer way there through bus-fulls of cabbage-eating Catholic bastards [...] Now any good lassie will sleep with any dirty Mick as soon as she'd lie with a dog."
Related Themes:
