Comment on style/ language

Peter Brown tells his novel The Wild Robot in language that is simple, personal, and straightforward. This is done for at least three reasons. First, the novel is aimed at an audience of children, so the vocabulary used in the novel must be easily understood by that age level. Second, the main characters of the novel are a task-performing robot and animals with only a wild education. As such, their language is simple and straightforward. Third, directly addressing the reader and using the pronoun "you" allows the narrator to provide contextual information that only the reader and the narrator may know. This adds drama to the novel by alerting the reader to dangerous and ominous things that the characters do not know. An example of this is when the second cargo ship appears.