Their Eyes Were Watching God Vernacular Analysis

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, she uses two different types of language styles. Huston uses the vernacular, which is the language or the way that people in a specific country speak. Hurston uses the vernacular to give her characters their own voice or agency, especially Janie who tries to find her voice throughout the novel. . Using the vernacular Hurston is giving her audience a sense of African language and people down South speak to one another. The vernacular will be different for an individual each time they are in a different social context. As the novel goes on the use on the vernacular evolves. Each character in the novel has their own way of using the vernacular. We can also see the use of the