What language and structure does Robert Swindells use in the book Stone Cold?

Answer 1

Stone Cold's structure is an interesting one - one of which I have never read before. He has a play style dual narrative that follows Link, the protagonist and Shelter, the antagonist which goes at a steady rate. They show the stories of each other and how their two worlds intertwined. Link's part is a normal diary-like recount whereas Shelter's follows that of a more disciplined Daily Routine Orders. They are both diary like but you can see that Shelter is more disciplined and mostly tells us what happened and sometimes hints how he felt. This is why you find that Shelter's 'chapter time' is a lot less than Link's. The story starts of by building questions and wondering what the exposition of the main characters are more Shelter than Link. But Swindwells doesn't dwell on it too much and tells us their background stories quickly. The physical shape of the page is obviously rectangular.