Seraph on the Suwanee
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Seraph on the Suwanee
In the novel “Seraph on the Suwanee” by Hurston the author uses comparison and reparative words to describe Sawley this characterizes the people as apathetic yet ignorant human beings who don’t care about their world.
In the beginning of the novel Hurston starts to describe the town of Sawley by using comparison by stating that they have a similarity to their “agriculture” like looking “scratchy and scanty”. This makes them seem as careless people who don’t care about their land. Where they would degrade their land by cutting down a bunch of trees and wouldn't cultivate properly.
Hurston uses repetitive words to describe Sawley. The way he uses the word “Few” in his novel a lot shows the aspect of the towns people. She starts off by using “Few” in how very little of the people in sawley care about cultivating its plants. Describing it as “scratchy Planting” were the people didn't put much importance in doing a good job. Even after when the automobile was invented only a small amount of them dreamt of venturing away from the town. Stating that they don’t really care what more there is to see of the word they would rather just stay in one place. This makes the people seem apathetic when it comes to their world. The people are “ignorant” whenever it comes to knowing things. Especially when it came to their past only a few were concern about it. Nobody of Sawley cared who used to live in their homeland before them or what plants used to grow along their river. The only thing that matters is the turtle meat. The town only cared of what their land offered then rather what they could make from it.
In the novel “Seraph on the Suwanee” by Hurston the author uses comparison and reparative words to describe Sawley this characterizes the people as apathetic yet ignorant human beings who don’t care about their world.
In the beginning of the novel Hurston starts to describe the town of Sawley by using comparison by stating that they have a similarity to their “agriculture” like looking “scratchy and scanty”. This makes them seem as careless people who don’t care about their land. Where they would degrade their land by cutting down a bunch of trees and wouldn't cultivate properly.
Hurston uses repetitive words to describe Sawley. The way he uses the word “Few” in his novel a lot shows the aspect of the towns people. She starts off by using “Few” in how very little of the people in sawley care about cultivating its plants. Describing it as “scratchy Planting” were the people didn't put much importance in doing a good job. Even after when the automobile was invented only a small amount of them dreamt of venturing away from the town. Stating that they don’t really care what more there is to see of the word they would rather just stay in one place. This makes the people seem apathetic when it comes to their world. The people are “ignorant” whenever it comes to knowing things. Especially when it came to their past only a few were concern about it. Nobody of Sawley cared who used to live in their homeland before them or what plants used to grow along their river. The only thing that matters is the turtle meat. The town only cared of what their land offered then rather what they could make from it.