An instance of Walter's Southern dialect in to Kill A Mockingbird can be seen in Walter's reply to Jem's question of whether he knows a ghost lives in the Radley Place.
"Reckon I have," said Walter. "Almost died the first year I come to school and et them pecans-folks said he pizened' em and put' em over on the school side of the fence"
This is one of the only two instances that Walter's broad southern dialect appears clearly, he shortens his words and uses contractions needlessly, which makes what he says nearly indecipherable to someone that is not from the South like him.
From what he says, it can be deduced that Walter is an imaginative child from a poor family. Everyone knows not to eat the pecans, but Walter did, likely out of hunger. However, the pecans are not really poisoned as he says, he is just trying to impress the other children that he did eat them and survived.
Walter is imaginative and poor, his southern dialect shortens words and makes them sound different, like saying 'et' instead of 'ate', 'em' instead of 'them' and 'pizened' instead of 'poisoned'.
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