How Does Hurston Use Diction In Seaph On The Suwanee

Books and novels can describe so many things, in which we believe that it exists. Zora Neale is a brilliant writer that can create vivid imagery in the readers mind. The opening of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, “Seraph on the Suwanee" demonstrates the contrast between the famous Suwanee River, and the people that live in Sawley town. Hurston use of alliteration and diction make Sawley seem like a beautiful place to those who have never been there. On the other hand she also describes harsh diction and imagery, which more accurately depicts what it is like working on the river, and characterizes the people working there.
In Hurston’s first paragraph she describes Suwanee River as a beautiful and majestic place surrounded by fertile cultivation and rich history. The use of euphony and alliteration contribute in creating this image in (lines 7-9). It states “The town is flanked by cultivated fields planted to com, cane, potatoes, tobacco, and small patches of cotton." The first line of the second paragraph immediately created a contradiction to that description, though, emphasizing how life on the river is so unlike how it might appear to lookers on.
The fields are described with harsh sounding words such as, “Scratchy" (line 1). The people of the town are first introduced in this paragraph as well. There whole life was working in sawmill. The images in (lines 15-16), are correspondingly unpleasant, Hurston said, “There was ignorance and poverty, and the ever-present hookworm." The people in Sawley don’t deserve to work hard and not get the award.Hurston's use of simile ties together the "Scanty" look of the land to the appearances of the people in the last sentence of the paragraph. The people are characterized by their poverty, on account of the land on which they