Analysis Of Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks On The Road

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The different tones that Zora Neale Hurston uses in the passage Dust Tracks on the Road is a content, upbeat, and safe feeling but shifts to a harsh and grim tone. As Hurston reminisces on what a pleasant childhood, she experienced, she also remembers her father's disapproval towards what he thought to be her disrespectful mouth. Through Hurston’s young eyes, she finds pleasure with her youth, but she wishes that she was more adaptable like her older sister. The author’s diction is very warm and peaceful at first, then it transforms into a much darker language. In the beginning Hurston never talks about a struggle growing up, in fact, she states that her mother made sure that her children “ had plenty of space to play; plenty of things to

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