The significance of the narrator's eloquence in contradiction to the colloquial manner of the character's speech, is to demonstrate the fact that there should be an, "importance of controlling language,' not only in life but in literature as well. There is an obvious division between the almost formal style of the narration and the colloquial and informal language of the dialogue from the characters. "Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun."(Huston 51) This example of the kind of language that is used when the narrator is speaking demonstrates the literary and creative, as well as rich in literary devices such as personification as the narrator describes the relationship between the world and the characters that live upon it. There is a clear distinction between different ways of life. The article mentions that the "split narrations" each hold their own purpose in the development of the novel, as "this voice [the narrator] anchors the entire novel." Whereas, the long chains of dialogue from the characters gush," colorful folksy aphorisms" which evidently sets the dialogue and the narration apart from each other as it is quite obvious when the narrator is speaking as opposed to when the character's are speaking."Shucks! 'Tain't no mo' fools lak me." This a clear example of the unique language of the African splash to their dialogue