Other Voices, Other Rooms Analysis

Skully's Landing, Noon City Other Voices, Other Rooms, most definitely takes place in the Southern United States. You can almost taste the sweet tea. It's somewhere near New Orleans and Ponchart...

Third Person (Limited Omniscient) The narrator of Other Voices, Other Rooms is, just like the reader, a sort of fly on the wall. The narrator focuses on Joel, whose thoughts we have VIP access t...

Coming-of-Age; Family Drama; Southern Gothic Other Voices, Other Rooms tells the story of Joel's transition from boyhood to manhood; at age thirteen, he's right in between, and at the end of the n...

Conversational and Detached We don't know much about the narrator of Other Voices, Other Rooms, but their tone toward Joel's plight is pretty matter-of-fact and distant. We call it detached beca...

Other Voices, Other Rooms is written in a style that seems intentionally beautiful, with poetic paragraphs describing the setting and Joel's feelings about it. For example, check out this medit...

The hero of Other Voices, Other Rooms is a teenaged boy who finds himself in very difficult situations with some regularity. His mother's death; having to move in with his aunt and then again with...

The epigraph is a Bible verse from the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, Chapter 17. It's all about how God will punish the wicked. This particular verse, though, is about the deception and wickednes...

At the very end of Other Voices, Other Rooms, Joel sees the "queer lady" in Randolph's window. Randolph, his evil cousin, who has engineered the trap that makes it impossible for Joel to ever leave...

Other Voices, Other Rooms takes place in the 20th-century US, and is mostly focused through a boy's perspective. Easy-peasy, right? How complicated are kids? Um, kind of complicated, as it t...

Exposition (Initial Situation) Joel Harrison Knox is sent to live with his father, Mr. Sansom, after the death of his mother. This part of the novel sets the stage for everything that is still t...

A young hero falls under the shadow of the dark power. Joel, our young hero, ends up in Skully's Landing, which is definitely a shady place. He doesn't really know what's going on there, but he...

Joel Harrison Knox is sent to live with his father in Skully's Landing, an old estate outside of a small town somewhere outside of New Orleans. He makes friends with a tomboy named Idabel, and ev...

Truman Capote was only 23 when he published his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. (Source)When Capote reread Other Voices, Other Rooms eight years after it was published, he liked it but felt...

Since Other Voices, Other Rooms is a coming-of-age novel, it shouldn't surprise us too much that there's some raciness. Whether it's Idabel telling dirty jokes that she doesn't actually get (the...

Literary and Philosophical References Sir Walter Scott (1.1.35)Charles Dickens (1.1.35)Hans Christian Andersen, "The Snow Queen" (1.1.35)Henry James, "The Middle Years" (2.8.33) Robert E. Lee...