Journal entry 1

There is a vast difference between the language used in the narration and in the actual Dialouge in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. The narrator helps to move the story along, and uses a formal english style. The narrator talks without the use of any kind of slang or mispronunciation of words. The actual dialouge that goes on in the story is that of ex-slaves back in the late 1800's when the slaves developed their own slang version of english. This type of english employs many sounds using "-d", "Ah" and other kinds of speech used by the ex-slaves until they got an education or learned how to talk regular english. That is the difference between the narration and the dialect.