In the book, Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses Literary elements, to contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole. The literary elements Zora uses are Characterization, Imagery, and Allegory to advance the book.
One of the elements Zora Neal Hurston is using is characterization. Tea cake husband of Janie that is dark toned describes Mrs. Turner to the readers. Mrs. Turner was a “milking sort of women that belonged to a child bed. Her shoulders rounded a little and she must have been conscious…” Tea cake ends up characterizing Mrs. Turner by describing what she look like. In criteria, Mrs Turners Least Favorite Topic was “Negroes.”(Hurston 164) This explains her desire to associate with people that had whiter skin …show more content…
The part where Mrs. Turner finds herself complaining about race is has and underlining meaning. She says that “it ain’t fair. Even if dey don’t take us in wid de whites, dey oughta make us uh class tuh ourselves.” (Hurston 166) The underlining meaning is that even though she is black she finds herself to be a better black and for that she complains about others and how they are worse than her and how she and others that are more white should be a race on its own. Mrs. Tuner also thought that “anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself.” (Hurston 169) This indicates that Mrs. Turner was wanting more than anything to be someone she was not which was an occasion and that even though the African American people were mostly free there was still the shunning and rejections and mockery from those that were white or looked more white then themselves. Mrs. Tuners wishes to be more white furthers the book because she with the racial issue of wanting to be something that she cannot
One of the elements Zora Neal Hurston is using is characterization. Tea cake husband of Janie that is dark toned describes Mrs. Turner to the readers. Mrs. Turner was a “milking sort of women that belonged to a child bed. Her shoulders rounded a little and she must have been conscious…” Tea cake ends up characterizing Mrs. Turner by describing what she look like. In criteria, Mrs Turners Least Favorite Topic was “Negroes.”(Hurston 164) This explains her desire to associate with people that had whiter skin …show more content…
The part where Mrs. Turner finds herself complaining about race is has and underlining meaning. She says that “it ain’t fair. Even if dey don’t take us in wid de whites, dey oughta make us uh class tuh ourselves.” (Hurston 166) The underlining meaning is that even though she is black she finds herself to be a better black and for that she complains about others and how they are worse than her and how she and others that are more white should be a race on its own. Mrs. Tuner also thought that “anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself.” (Hurston 169) This indicates that Mrs. Turner was wanting more than anything to be someone she was not which was an occasion and that even though the African American people were mostly free there was still the shunning and rejections and mockery from those that were white or looked more white then themselves. Mrs. Tuners wishes to be more white furthers the book because she with the racial issue of wanting to be something that she cannot