Comment on language /style

Jean Craighead George tells her novel “Frightful’s Mountain” in language that is simple and straightforward for two primary reasons. First, her target audience of youth and young adults necessitates simple and straightforward language so that they may understand it and more easily follow along the plot and understand themes at work in the novel. Secondly, much of the novel follows the actions and activities of Frightful, a peregrine falcon, who neither writes nor speaks in English. The natural world often requires only simple explanations, and so simple and straightforward language is highly appropriate for the narration, especially given to describe Frightful and the situations in her life.