The language of the novel is a simple English that is punctuated with the slang a young child might use and the southern dialect of characters living in the South. The language is easy for the reader to understand and contains few foreign or unfamiliar phrases that might complicate the reading process for some readers. The only uniqueness about the language of this novel is the southern slang that some readers might not be familiar with, but many of these words are self explanatory or are easily explained by their context.