Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes Were Watching God discusses a hunt for independence and self-reliance through the personal journey of the main character. ... She describes how "she hated her grandmother Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon"(Hurston 85-86). ... Her final conclusions are that "they got tuh go tuh God, and they got to find out about livin' fuh theyselves"(Hurston, 183). ...

• Word Count: 439
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the story "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston the protagonist, or main character of the story, Janie Crawford, is alienated by her society and by her culture since as long as she can remember. ... They were absolutely right, Janie was one of those rare people that come along in life and are born into unfortunate circumstances but by God's will were given the character to overcome those circumstances and find their own true identity. ... However Janie living with her master's was a fixable thing, so Janie's grandmother was able to get her a house on their o...

• Word Count: 1356
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Their novels, Invisible Man and Their Eyes Were Watching God, probed deeply into the life and culture of the African-American, something that was practically unheard of. ... Also, both authors refused to make their stories a fairy tale. ... Neither Hurston nor Ellison hid any part of their culture to be politically correct; this fact is especially visible in the authors use of diction in their novels. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston employs slang and colloquial language throughout the novel. ... They are well developed, well spoken, strong, immortal characters ...

• Word Count: 835
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is enslaved by this emphasis on materialism and Nanny's unattainable aspirations. ... However, even when Janie escapes this unsuccessful marriage in hopes of finding freedom and happiness, she ends up becoming slave to Jody's god-like aspirations. ... It refers to white women sitting on the porches of their white houses, basking in their wealth. ... The narrator criticizes that Jody achieves his god-like status just because no one else has the nerve to take matters into their own hands. ... The idea that the blacks ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This migration changed their image from rural to urban, and from peasant to sophisticate. ... Blacks began to create their own types of music, art, and literature as they began their move towards Harlem, all having similar backgrounds and a sense of pride. ... African-Americans intensified their pride in culture and their yearning for acceptance as equals in the United States. ... She is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States, and this is shown in her best-known novel Their Eyes Were W...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"These young people centered their hopes on a new vision of opportunity, social and economic freedom, and a chance to organize and fight fro improving racial conditions." ... During the period after world war one several black writers began to publish their work that "differed significantly from either the Chesnutt or the Dunbar traditions "in black literature. (Wintz, Page 64) It was very hard at this time to get their writing out since whites ran all the publishing places. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman&#x...

• Word Count: 1092
• Approx Pages: 4

Janice knew that her mother divorced her father because of infidelity in their relationship and seeing her mother cry affected her much more than she ever realized. ... She recalls her African American studies in 10th grade, a private school, opening her eyes to the oppression and guilt that her grandfather had gone through. In this class she found African American classmates who were educated like her and other ethnic backgrounds enjoying each other's company without worrying about the color on their skin. ... Janice believes watching her mother's resilience and independent natu...

• Word Count: 3109
• Approx Pages: 12

Black painters and sculptors joined their fellow poets, novelists, dramatists, and musicians in an artistic outpouring that established Harlem as the international capital of Black culture. ... Africans and their descendants have been an essential part of the story of America since the late 1400s. ... The association planned to raise money to buy a ship and return Black Americans to Africa, the land of their origins. ... The movement was instrumental in the founding of the African Republic of Liberia where nearly 13,000 blacks were settled in their homeland (Collier, 1985). ... Finally, ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate