quotes alone keller

• 'a man whose judgement must be dregded out of experience and a peasant-like common sense. A man among men.' pg6 

• 'well that's what a war does. i had two sons, now i got one. it changed all the tallies.' pg11


  detached short declarative
• 'i ignore what i gotta ignore.' pg16

• 'You got a business here, what the hell is this?' pg 17

• 'I can afford another bag of potatoes.' pg18

• 'Calm yourself... calm yourself... all right, all right, calm yourself.' pg 22 

• Kellers speech: 'listen...but very slow, and with a smile...bigger than ever' pg30

• 'Kid, walkin' down the street that day I was guilty as hell. Except I wasn't, and there was a court paper in my pocket to prove I wasn't, I and I walked… past… the porches. Result? Fourteen months later I had one of the best shops in the state again, a respected man again; bigger than ever. ' pg30


  American materialism and superlatives
• 'The beast. I was the beast.' pg30



  zoomorphism
• 'the man was a fool but don't make a murderer out of him.' pg32


  syntactic parallelism
• 'see it human, see it human.' pg32


  repitiiton
• 'little man... always scared of loud voices' 'if i could have gone in that day i'd a told him - junk em' '... little man does... alone he was afraid.' pg32


  semantic field of infantilization
• 'that's a mistake... but it ain't murder.' pg33



  litotes
• 'its crazy, but it comes to my mind. She don't hold nothin' against me, does she?' pg37



  paranoia reflected in interrogatives
• 'im going to build you a house, stone, with a driveway from the road. I want you to spread out. Chris, I want you to use what I made for you...[he is close to him now]... i mean, with joy, Chris, without shame... with joy.'

  
  

  end focus 'joy'
• '[frightened, but angry]' pg40

• MOTHER: 'he's worried. When he's worries he sleeps.' p41


  tragic notion of sleep - lady macbeth
• 'there was a court paper in my pocket to prove I wasn't, I and I walked… past… the porches. Result?... a respected man again; bigger than ever. ' pg30


• 'a little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.' pg63

• 'he never flew a p-40, whats the matter with you? whats the matter with you? whats the matter with you?... whats the matter with you! ' pg69


  epizuexis building into exclamative
• 'you're a boy, what could i do! im in business, a man is in business,a hundred and twenty cracked , your out of business ... what could i do... let them take my life away?' pg69


  euphemism
• 'you wanted money, so i made money. what must i be forgiven? you wanted money, didn't you?' pg76

• 'chris, a man can't be a jesus in this world!' pg83

• 'Sure, he was my son. But i think to him they were all my sons.' pg83

• 'im his father and he's my son, and if theres something bigger than that i'll put a bullet in my head!' pg 77 



  prolepsis
• 'a shot is heard in the house' pg84

• 'the man was a fool but don't make a murderer out of him' pg 32



  past perfect
• 'that happens, thats the business... he's a little man, your father, always scared of loud voices.' pg32

• 'im older than you and i know - a daughter is a daughter and a father is a father.' pg49

• '[a commanding outburst in his high nervousness]: a father is a father! [as though the outburst has revealed him, he looks about, wanting to retract it]' pg49