Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston Essay

Dust Tracks on a Road An Autobiography by Zora Neale HurstonBetween Cape jasmine bushes and chinaberry trees, Zora Neale Hurstons childhood, was a warm sweet memory illustrated in an extract of Dust Tracks on a Road An Autobiography. In this excerpt, diction and point of view climb up from the page to give the reader a lucid and realistic view of life down there in the farm, sheltered from society to protect the lavish love, food and company of the Hurston home, compared to way up north where rare apples are abundant and gardenias are sold for a dollar, but where reality is a ordinary cry for equality and justice. Hurstons juxtaposition of these two environments compliments her parents idealistic differences when it comes to raising their children. Metaphorical language, separation, position and repetition of words flowers, fruit and struggle resourcefulness create an atmosphere of home-like neighborhood versus the world outside the chinaberry trees.At the beginning of this piece , we are quickly introduced to the different lifestyles between the farm she lived in and the iodine she encountered when she left to New York. Easily distinguished is the contrast made by the use of the word folks when she mentions her relatives from down under but calls the New Yorkers people. The northwestern is seen as a literature archetype as an unknown lucrative place, a strange place where the flowers cost a dollar each. This is positioned as a welcome mat to a world of differences betwe...