Analysis of literary devices used in the book of Zora Hurston, an African-AMerican book title: Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942).
Living in the South during 1942, Zora Hurston gives the reader a first-person point of view of her valued yet constricted childhood as an African-American. By using diction from a young girl's perspective and her manipulation of point of view, Zora enriches our sense of her childhood. Most importantly, the time period of a belligerent WWII foreshadows Zora's conflict to try to break free from authority and her audacity to speak her mind.
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…bring the reader to an emotional awakening of her life as an African American girl. The diction and strong emotion she uses helps put the reader in Zora's position to feel first hand exactly what she is going through. All in all, Zora is a young adolescent who admires the affluence and security of her physical surroundings yet struggles with an internal conflict of yearning to "jump at de sun."
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