Journal Entry #1
The narration differs from the dialect of the speech in that the narration has a very educated tone to it, whereas the dialect is more of a typical Southern African-American drawl of seemingly less educated folk. The effect of this contrast is that the people talking are of a lower level of knowledge than the intended reader but the consistency in the intelligence of the narration supplies the source of the reader's continued curiosity into this story.
Journal Entry #2
Since the novel is set in the American South in the first half of the 20th century, the characters' motivation is less of superficial purpose as many African-Americans there at that time sometimes struggled just to get by. As well, the atmosphere is influenced by it just being the second generation after the Civil War, so the idea of Black slavery is still relatively fresh in the people's minds. The sense that it is in a small town through the use of the gossip about Janie's return contributes to the development of the atmosphere of the text as well.
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