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This 4 page paper discusses the linguistic concepts Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison use in their works. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in their stories. Discussion The first work under consideration is Sweat by Hurston, simply because it is so tightly constructed-and because the punishment meted out to Sykes is almost
Biblical in its strict rendering of justice. The story turns on the fact that Delia, Sykes wife and the woman he has beaten and reviled for the 15 years of
their marriage, is terrified of snakes. To scare her as much as possible, which he finds highly amusing, he brings a rattlesnake home and puts it in a box near
the door, where Delia has to pass it every time she leaves the house (Hurston, 1997). One night, at home alone, she finds the rattler in her clothes basket where
Sykes put it, hoping it would kill her. She flees the house in terror; when he comes home around dawn, he assumes she is dead and gets careless. The snake
bites him as Delia listens to his agony from outside. He finally kills the snake but its too late: Delia finds him with his neck "horribly swollen" and his "one
open eye shining with hope" (Hurston, 1997, p. 40). But Delia doesnt help him. Instead, she goes back to the yard and waits under the chinaberry tree until its over:
"... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye which must know by now that she knew" (Hurston, 1997, p. 40). And
so he dies a richly deserved death, a victim of his own brutality and treachery. Hurston writes all the dialogue in the story in dialect, no matter whos speaking, making
it difficult to tell the characters apart. This may be why Hurston is very careful to identify the speaker. The dialect also makes a reader slow down to make sure
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