"I" is invariably "Ah." Vowel shifts also occur often. "You" becomes "yuh," occasionally "y'all," a plural. Initial and final consonants are frequently dropped. The reader approaches both Eatonville and the muck as an outsider and soon discovers patterns in the language of the characters. Once readers understand the dialect and its common features, the text becomes familiar and easy to read. She states that Janie will tell her story to Pheoby in "soft, easy phrases." Readers unfamiliar with such phrases often see Hurston's language as a strange dialect and a barrier to enjoying the novel. Early in the novel, Hurston tells her readers what to expect in the language of her characters. Dialect is regional, and it has distinctive features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Their Eyes Were Watching God is rich in dialect, known as the spoken version of a language. Hurston's familiarity with the language of the South enables her to accurately depict the dialect of the region. Not only do Janie, Tea Cake, and their friends have similar speech patterns, but also the guards who command Tea Cake after the hurricane speak in a comparable dialect. It is worth noting that the dialect used in the novel is closer to a Southern dialect, rather than an African-American dialect. After making some initial adjustments as a reader to become familiar with the language, readers feel as if they were actually a part of the action. The use of dialect makes the characters seem real they are believable. Email: or call or text 97.Hurston uses dialect to bring the story as well as the characters to life. In addition to his evangelistic travels, he works and writes for the Church of Christ of Red Oak at Uhl Road and Ovilla. We can have absolute faith in any of those things and go about our lives believing with all of our hearts that we are walking on ice as thick as building.īut thin ice will break, no matter how much you believe in it.Ĭoach Steven Bowen, a long-time Red Oak teacher and coach, now enjoys his time as a full-time writer and preacher of the gospel. We can base our faith on human reasoning, current trends, eloquent sermons, long-held prejudices, or on the things that appeal the most to us. We have a great deal of faith, but that that faith is based on the wrong things. The problem may be that we have too much faith. Interestingly, “Doubt,” it seems, is not the problem. But your faith must be invested in something solid. It’s not the amount of faith you can muster that matters up front. You can have very little faith in thick ice and it will hold you up just fine,” he says, “and you can have enormous faith in thin ice and you can drown. “We Canadians,” he said, “know there are two kinds of ice: thick and thin. The theologian drew an illustration from his homeland to clarify. What, exactly, is our faith based on? Is it founded on something very solid? Is it, in the words of the great apostle, based on true “substance”? (Hebrews 11:1). To combat doubt, he says, we need to establish a clear object for our faith. Anderson answers the question by considering the true nature of faith and doubt. In the interview, Stroebel is curious to find out if such a man of knowledge as Anderson had wrestled with the doubts himself. We cannot travel very far before we realize we are prone to wander off the main road far more than we would like. I have found that when you choose the road of faith, you had better be prepared to detour down some dark side-roads – such as the cul-de-sac of Doubt, or the crooked highway of Disbelief. The biggest threat, as you’ll see, is shocking. Anderson teaches him that doubt is not our biggest threat. This interview is one of Stroebel’s most important because Mr. In one section toward the end of the book, Stroebel interviews an elderly Canadian teacher, writer, and scholar named Lynn Anderson. I have long been intrigued by the idea of “faith” and how fragile it sometimes can be. On my trips, I always pack a little book called “The Case For Faith” by Lee Stroebel.
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