The highly descriptive language is at a level that young adult readers can understand, yet many descriptions and phrases have a subtext that are more easily interpreted by older readers. The style of speech and descriptors are in keeping with the time period and location. As all the citizens are from the same community, their speech tends to be quite similar. The differences in speech tend to be generational in how an adult or child perceives the same event differently. As a novel seen primarily from a young boy's point of view, the author uses the language of a child's wonderment when describing the physical world of Green Town and its people. This helps to provide an emotional connection to people and places inherently important to children, rather than those of the adult world.