Their Eyes Were Watching God: Journal 1

The narration differs from the dialect in a way that’s how African Americans spoke, which had slang and misspelled words. While the novel itself is being told in a more modern way, which gave it that contrast between the two. The effect of the use of a different dialect shows and expresses the time period and culture of the characters. Due to this kind of dialect, the reader is also required to think a bit more while reading the novel which lets you focus in on it. It also gives the feeling of realism to the story, because of the dialect. It lets you understand what the situation is like and how they felt from the style of language.