Barbara Kingsolver's Hyperbole To Demonstrate The Realities Of Life
Barbara Kingsolver uses hyperbole to demonstrate the realities of life. Taylor is looking for a job and happens to see a HELP WANTED sign at a restaurant. She asks a lady about how the pay is and how it is like working their. As Taylor mentions the baby she is left with, the lady said she knows a place where the babies can be watched because she had a kid of her own. “I had thought Pittman was the only place on earth where people started having babies before they learned their multiplication tables” (Kingsolver, ch. 3). Taylor exaggerates to prove how every women in Pittman has a kid as early as elementary school. She uses hyperbole to clarify how women have children early, and end up not getting education and hustling to make money. Any place