Journal 1

How does the narration differ from the dialect?

Their Eyes Were Watching God has a Southern dialect. This means that when a character talks, the dialogue is spelled how it would sound if someone were saying the words out loud. However, the narration has all regular spelling and is the story being told by the narrator which could be any character in the story or just the author. In this case, the author, Zora Neale Hurston, is the narrator.