Blog 11/15/10

I thought it was interesting for the readings this week to bring up Black English. I read the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, which is written in Black English and I couldn't agree more that it is considered a dialect. To read that book was, for me, like stepping into the time period. They were of lower class and didn't have much of an education, especially compared to the white people of the time. I found it eye opening to read because obviously, Zora Neale Hurston took the time to carefully piece together a book in a dialect completely foreign to her and her audience. Yes, I completely agree it is a dialect all of its own and I also agree that it should be categorized as a different type of rhetoric because the books of the early 19th century are completely different depending on the race of the author, or main characters. I don't think they should continue to be divided today, but as far as the ones written in the early 19th century, yes I agree 100% white and black rhetoric was completely different.