Use Of Language In Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks On A Road

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In Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiography Dust Tracks On a Road, she explains that her childhood was a free yet restrictive through the diction, what her parents’ and what they expected from her, and how she has trouble finding herself in her comfortable life.

Through her childhood memories, Zora uses vivid imagery and languages to show how it was. They had many fruits like oranges and guavas in their yard to eat and share and games they played since their childhood were “hide and whoop, chick-mah-chick, and hide and seek. Some items they did not have were apples and stew beef. It was rare and they would treasure those items. She tells us where she lives and her surroundings which were on “a big piece of land with two chinaberry trees shaking

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