Hurston’s depiction of her characters’ speech has been controversial since this novel was first published. She was an anthropologist before she was a novelist, though. How are you doing with the dialog? How does it affect your reading experience and your reading strategies, if at all?Explain
1)Hogan uses some aspects of the typical novel, like getting readers to identify with a character, using symbolic features like a journey, giving us a love interest to root for — even while she interpolates features of Native culture like magic, oral traditions, and herbal lore. Does Hogan give us that most-expected novelistic feature, “closure”? […]