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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses Zora Neale Hurston’s classic African American novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, which depicts life in the deep South in the early decades of the twentieth century and is written to reflect the dialect that the people spoke at that time. The writer explores the purposes that dialect serves in the novel in terms of imagery and associates this with Hurston’s themes of speech and language in regards to the liberation of her protagonist, Janie Crawford. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the twentieth century is written to reflect the dialect that the people spoke at that time. This makes it sometimes difficult for modern readers who are unfamiliar with historical Black
dialect to understand. As presumably, Huston was writing for a white readership, as well as African American, this naturally brings up the question of why Hurston employed dialect and what
purposes does it serve within the novels framework. Additional questions can be associated with this question, such as how dialect relates to Hurstons use of imagery and how language, in
general, and speech, in particular, relate to the overall goals of Hurston as an author. Examination of these questions demonstrates how Hurston used the natural language of her characters,
authentically representing the speech patterns blacks of that era and location, in order to convey the beauty and depth of black culture, as well as the humanity of the characters.
Early on in the novel, Janie Crawford, Hurstons protagonist, is being lectured by her grandmother Nanny, who explains that Honey, de white man is de ruler of
everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe its some place way off in the ocean where da black man is in power, but we dont know
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to,
but he dont tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin fur
it tuh be different wid you (Hurston 14). As this illustrates, there is a rhythm and beauty to the dialect that draws on allegory and imagery in order to
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