Journal #5

But Robert started to consider Curiosity. Curiosity, that peculiar creature with the long slender ears who resided deep in the thoughts. The determined being who lived in the minds of all people like a conscience with an overwhelming voice, and a mind of its own. What desire does Curiosity have to live inside, and what force can stop him? He watches from his strong fortress that forbids entrance of any being. Watches carefully and secretly day by day with his strategy planned out, waiting for the signal from the situation. Been planning out schemes before there was a man or a woman or a setting. Robert was bound to figure out his plan looking to bring regret and shame at any second. He was nervous and terrified too. Poor Jeff! He should not have to undertake the resistance alone. He sent Henry in to advise and warn, but Jeff refused. These warnings wuz able to help with the tempted, but they didn't understand a situation that had never been seen before. He'd been perfectly fine just before the devious woman had planted doubts into his mind. He was fully aware of what was going on. That was what he thought. But Henry told Robert the truth, so he knew. But if Henry had not, the following night Robert was destined to know, for he found Jeff in a confused trance, lost under the thoughts and doubts. Questions that would never have been asked now constantly emerged from the ground. Just waited above the sun and observed. Trust, that elusive worm, had burrowed under the ground.

I began the pastiche in a similar way with a sentence that starts in the middle of a thought using the word "But". I used a possibly negative abstract noun the way Hurston did, describing it as something evil and wicked. I also gave it a powerful characteristic that one cannot control. Characters were brought into the scene in a similar way and they took the roles presented in the passage. A change in dialect was only used once and a sentence with parallel structure was included. At the end, another abstract noun was brought in, using a metaphor that compares it to an animal like Hurston did with rumor.