Joe Starks Joe Starks, Janie's second husband in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, had most of the common characteristics of a white individual during the late nineteen century. ... Other members of the town recognize his actions as boastful and maintained that if others who were educated lived in Eatonville, he would not make such claims in front of the town members....
" The imagery details how once the light of the day is gone, the town becomes comfortable to express their thoughts. ... They passed nations through their mouths. ... They feel high and mighty by exercising their opinions and judgements, as if they are a judge issuing a verdict in court. ... But women act in the present, their dreams have to fit within reality, and that is how they must live their lives; they aren't afforded the luxury to dream and hope for their lives as they'd please. ... In the final two paragraphs, "They scrambled a noisy "good evenin'" ...
Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The UNIA&#x...
