Mrs. Turner finally rose to go after being very firm about several other viewpoints of either herself, her son or her brother. S
he begged Janie to drop in on her anytime, but never once mentioning Tea Cake. Finally she was gone and Janie hurried to her kitchen to put on supper and found Tea Cake sitting in there with his head between his hands. “Tea Cake! Ah didn’t know you wuz home.” “Ah know yuh didn’t. Ah been heah uh long time listenin’ to dat heifer run me down tuh de dawgs uh try tuh tole you off from me.” How does Hurston convey her own cultural experiences?
Through the use of formal language and informal dialogue, Zora Neale Hurston was able to convey her own cultural experiences.
Explanation: Zora Neale Hurston, a famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance wrote her famous "Their Eyes were Watching God". It narrates the story of a black woman in Harlem that depicts issues of race and gender issues prevalent in those times through it's main character Janie Crawford. After two failed marriages, she fell in love with a much younger man, Tea Cake. Though she had married for love, she is reluctant to publicly accept him as her husband because of the social pressure and the opinion of the people and what they may say. Throughout the story, we find the various characters talking in formal and informal language, contrasting between the two. And it is through this pattern that the author Hurston is able to successfully convey her own cultural experiences within the novel.
