The author Deborah Heiligman used very unusual syntax in his book " Charles and Emma : The Darwin's leap of faith. On page 9 of the book, he uses very peculiar key letters. He uses many dashes along his paragraph or in it I should say. An example would be when he uses it in the words " sister-in-law". One of the reason he did this was probably because he wanted show that all of the words are one together. Not literally but when you pronounce it, possibly. As well as showing the readers that you say it all together not individually. This wasn't the only place she uses dashes. She also uses it in the second paragraph. She unusually uses it some quotation marks. That wasn't why it was unusual. She placed them before the word and after in the quotation marks itself. That's something you don't really see often. She must have a reason to have done that though. She could have done that to show that the reader should have seen those words or that those words are very important to the plot in the book. Most likely she was trying to emphasize that it was important.
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