Their Eyes Were Watching God chapters 2 to 4 + Journal #2

Journal #2: Create a dialect of your choosing and list seven of the rules for that dialect. Remember that dialect rules can include grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. This website is an interesting source for English dialect ideas and details. When you have created your dialect you will pick one page from Their Eyes Were Watching God that contains both narration and dialogue and mimic that page's style as authentically as possibly.

Sample Dialect Rules:

Hurston's Dialect:

1. long vowels are softened [I/ah too/tuh like/lak you/yuh]

2. replaces the "g" on on "ing" words with an apostrophe [throwin']

3. usage and grammar errors [us/we, you was, hisself,

4. internal vowels lengthened for 'southern twang' [Lord/Lawd dog/dawg born/bawn]

5. "th" at the beginning of words becomes "d" [them/dem this/dis]

6. some expression reduced to single words [bet you/betcha, ought to/oughta]

7. distortions of past tense [knew/knowed]

Your page of dialogue/narration will include a conversation between two people. You can choose to use the same dialect for both characters, different dialects for both (let us know what dialects they are and at least a couple sample rules for the second), or an academic/traditional dialect and a dialect of your creation.

Spend some time thinking about the type of characters you want to create to have the conversation. This may become prewriting for the final pastiche you create and using the same characters will save you some thought in the end.