Question

Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of a woman that belonged to child-bed. Her shoulders rounded a little, and she must have been conscious of her pelvis because she kept it stuck out in front of her so she could always see it.

Which phrase from the excerpt is the best example of dialect in this excerpt?

Answer 1

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God” Zora Neale Hurston used the dialect to portray the folklore and spoken speech of a culture, the dialect includes patterns, expression and pronunciation that belong to the African-American culture in the early 20th century in the south of the country. The best example of dialect in this excerpt is “belonged to child-bed”.