Most authors have a way with consistency, doing the same thing all the time in their novels. This kind of gesture puts a kind of signature on their work. Thus, allowing the reader to have an idea of who wrote a particular story, in spite of having the name of the author written on the cover of the novel. In our case, the structure in R.L Stine’s novels are really of the same nature. In other words, Robert Lawrence Stine’s style is persistent and highly consistent.
Throughout Robert’s novels, the reader will find the consistent usage of a particular person. It does not matter of its first person, second person, or third person. With that, Robert Lawrence Stine, surly finds a way to include the person habitually throughout the piece, making sense. As a matter of fact, this epitomizes R.L. Stine’s Style-which has something to do with breaking rules in English grammar. Although, utilizing a person such as “I” a lot is not against English grammar, Is looked down upon. However, not by R.L. Stine. “I loved it!” I cried (Stine 18) That preceding quote is an example of how Stine uses different persons habitually.
Also notice in Stine’s work there is a “quick reading feeling”. In other words the lines in his work allow the reader to read quickly. From this, it can be concluded that Stine does not like to keep his readers on one story for a long period of time. This particular dislike, allows the readers to read the book quickly, so that they can get a great surprise at the ending of the novel. After all, he enjoys writing for young teenagers, so you would expect him to write brief stories to keep them as his fans.
The most thrilling part about R.L. Stine’s style is the fact that he does not really ever have a happy ending in his novels. The never-a-happy-ending-style is actually a great asset to Stine’s work. It is a great asset to Stine’s work because he can attach novels together. So the unhappy ending in one novel can be the beginning of another novel creating great suspicions for the reader. This kind of style that Stine has gives the reader a since of an unfinished and mysterious painting. |
