Zora Neale Hurston is the author of the book based on the 1930’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston is a skillful author in the way she exercises the use of language in her writing. The one specific use of English that contributes to evolving the novel’s overall meaning is figurative language, which also transforms the aesthetic impact of reading the book. Hurston’s use of figurative language immerses the reader as it develops the theme that humans are small compared to the big world, offering us a deeper connection with the characters and the emotions in each particular scene. The leading class of figurative language that Hurston uses is metaphorical comparisons. She uses metaphors to one, make the scenes in the book seem more grand, and also …show more content…
This makes the scene extra epic, which makes the reader feel more fearful than if it was ‘just a storm’. This quote also reveals the theme by making the storm feel massive, which in turn makes the reader feel tiny, just like the theme that Hurston creates during the text. A second metaphor that Hurston uses is when she compares humans to mud-balls. Hurston writes on page 90, “So they covered each one over with mud. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.” This comparison creates great development in the theme’s progression, and it also makes the reader have an enhanced sense of emotional attachment between the reader and the character of Janie. The theme of humans being small in the world is developed through the comparison between them and mudballs. There is not much of anything smaller than a mudball, which makes the comparison fantastic for the theme. This comparison is also fantastic because of how it makes the reader