Journal #9: Write a pastiche of Hurston by duplicating a theme that she uses and three stylistic elements. Use these elements with your own characters, setting, and conflict. After you finish your pastiche clarify what theme and techniques you used and how they were used in a way that mirrors Hurston's own use of them.
"Anne."
"Yeh Georgia?"
"Yuh done been mah friend right near ten years."
"Ah 'pose it been 'bout that."
"Welh Anne, ah'm worried 'bout Jake."
"Whuts about? He workin' hard."
"Yeh, and ah'm mighty grateful fo' dat, Anne. But he git futhah way from me every day."
"What'ch yuh mean Georgia?"
"He done be workin' dose fields all da time. He plow da field. He plant da seeds. He reap da crops. He take him'n his mule down tuh mahket. Feel lak he ain't got no mo' time fo' romancin'."
"But he doin' so well Georgia! Yuh be able to 'ford some land soon. Yuh inna mighty fine place right now."
"Ah kno' Anne. But it feel lak the mo' money we has, de poorer we gets."
"why dontcha just talk witem Georgia?"
"He ain't got no time fo' talking, be working dem fields till da day he die."
In this pastiche I attempted to mimic Hurston's use of dialect. When Hurston uses dialect there is never speaker tags and the speaker is instead identified through each character addressing the other by name. I also tried to mirror the use of a confidant and the use of short, repetitive sentence structure to enhance the feeling that time is passing. Overall I wanted to mirror one of Hurston's themes (people who attempt to advance themselves through society in a capitalistic system end up isolating themselves.) in my pastiche.
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