... new and valuable, something "rich and strange." Zora Neale Hurston writes about her own sea change in "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," and she uses this symbolic transformation as one of the themes of Their Eyes Were Watching God. In the very beginning of the novel, Hurston describes the differences between the ways that men ... and women each think about the future. Men wish for things like "ships at a distance." Some of them realize their dreams, and some of them don't, but ... they all dream. Women, according to Hurston, "forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remem...

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• Grade Level: High School

... language is very evident within the first chapter of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The reader is given no introduction or preface as to what is going on in the story. We immediately have to read the language of the south and become familiar with their vocabulary. It is interesting how the reader becomes used ... and the dialect within just a few chapters. Dialog begins to make sense and becomes much simpler to read. Hurston uses language not only by literally using spelling that represents their dialect but also by representing control. Almost as if the "voice" rep...

• Word Count: 324
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School