Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee, the narrator portrays the homely town of Sawley in west Florida, a town where “the scanty flowers in front yards and in tin cans and buckets looked like the people”. The narrator explores the town’s seemingly simple and rustic way of living, along with the ignorant yet paradoxically informed people in the town, that comes from the town’s attitude where “few knew and nobody cared”. Ultimate In ly, through the use of devices such as contrasting imagery, simile, regional dialect, apposition and polysyndeton, the narrator emphasizes Sawley’s unorthodox knowledge and how despite not knowing much about the world around them, the people of Sawley are well off with being concerned of their every day affairs. At the
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Through the use of diction such as “ignorance” “poverty” we can easily see how the author feels about the town. With the use of imagery in “Farms and the scanity flowers in front yard” the idea of the town being one of poverty gets further intensified. The author chose to end the second Zora paragraph with the saying how the tree tend to resemble the people who they live with adding another insult to the town. Shifting to the third paragraph the author is telling the reader how even through the town was secluded the hardship of the economy still affected it. Furthermore she/he tells how once you're in the tow not many people leave …show more content…
This shift allows the narrator to further connect with the peopleIn Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee, the narrator portrays the homely town of Sawley in west Florida, a town where “the scanty flowers in front yards and in tin cans and buckets looked like the people”. The narrator explores the town’s seemingly simple and rustic way of living, along with the ignorant yet paradoxically informed people in the town, that comes from the town’s attitude where “few knew and nobody cared”. Ultimately, through the use of devices such as contrasting imagery, simile, regional dialect, apposition and polysyndeton, the narrator emphasizes Sawley’s unorthodox knowledge and how despite not knowing much about the world around them, the people of Sawley are well off with being concerned of their every day
Through the use of diction such as “ignorance” “poverty” we can easily see how the author feels about the town. With the use of imagery in “Farms and the scanity flowers in front yard” the idea of the town being one of poverty gets further intensified. The author chose to end the second Zora paragraph with the saying how the tree tend to resemble the people who they live with adding another insult to the town. Shifting to the third paragraph the author is telling the reader how even through the town was secluded the hardship of the economy still affected it. Furthermore she/he tells how once you're in the tow not many people leave …show more content…
This shift allows the narrator to further connect with the peopleIn Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee, the narrator portrays the homely town of Sawley in west Florida, a town where “the scanty flowers in front yards and in tin cans and buckets looked like the people”. The narrator explores the town’s seemingly simple and rustic way of living, along with the ignorant yet paradoxically informed people in the town, that comes from the town’s attitude where “few knew and nobody cared”. Ultimately, through the use of devices such as contrasting imagery, simile, regional dialect, apposition and polysyndeton, the narrator emphasizes Sawley’s unorthodox knowledge and how despite not knowing much about the world around them, the people of Sawley are well off with being concerned of their every day