The tone of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, I feel is very sympathetic or compassionate. These were the first words that came to mind when I thought of the tone. This is what I believe the author was going for when she wrote this book as well. Unlike other books, in this story the author really focuses in on the African American culture. Hurston uses a lot of dialouge between neighbors and friends that use their cultural dialect.(Hurston, 36) By doing this it makes the whole book a little more special because everything seems so life like.
Hurston's text is compassionate towards her characters as well. At one point in the book Janie talks about characters who have done wrong in the story. But instead of just writing about the wrong thing that they did and making them seem really bad, Hurston goes into writing about why they did the things they did and how they felt. I really like that because that also makes the book seem more real. It helps you understand why things happen the way they do and it may also help us understand a little more about human nature. Therefore, this book is overall more emotionally moving.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Print.
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