Dust Tracks On A Road

In the passage, Dust Tracks on a Road, the author describes her childhood not only through her own eyes, but also through the eyes of her mother and father. She uses different devices to depict the overall feeling of her youth, and although there are several conflicts that keep the author’s adolescence from being perfect, she has an overall happy and rewarding life at home. Through diction and manipulation of point of view, Zora Neale Hurston conveys not only a sense of a plentiful and satisfying childhood within the bounds of her home, but also a childhood restricted by fears of the outside world and the future that was part of it.
The author uses devices such as irony, metaphors, and imagery to give the reader a better understanding of her happy yet confined childhood. “We lived on a big piece of ground with two big chinaberry trees shading the front gate and Cape jasmine bushes with hundreds of blooms on either side of the walks. I loved the fleshy, white, fragrant blo...