Their Eyes Were Watching God Comparative Analysis

anguage in a society can differ vastly amongst different social classes or races. The rich are seen to use more pompous words while people in cities make use of slang. This difference isn't as big a deal as it used to be and is seen as very normal for the current times. However in the case of blacks in the early 1900s this was different, especially in the south. They adopted a very lackadaisical cadence which in term reflected just how ignorant they were at times but they had no choice in the matter. While this may seem like a negative in certain aspects is is starkly the opposite. Take for example the book Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Hurston, in it Hurston uses the way of speaking used by those kinds of black people to tell a rich