Born in Alabama on January 7, 1891, Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore from the South, the Caribbean, and Latin American, as she spent her early adulthood studying at different universities. ... Zora Neale Hurston played a big part in the Harlem Renaissance, and being this she rubbed shoulders with many of the famous writers apart of it. ... For Hurston, Eatonville was always home. ... Zora Neale Hurston is a 20th century American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. ... Zora Neale is most known for her novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God....

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• Grade Level: High School

Janie Crawford, in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching G-d, embarks on a journey towards self-actualization. Hurston, known for her aesthetic language and symbolism, utilizes these traits throughout the book. ... Logan and Janie's relationship, just like Logan's house, was "absent of flavor" and a "lonesome place" (Hurston 39). ... Ah" (Hurston, 24). ... He told her, "You gettin' too moufy Janie" (Hurston, 75). ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God is a novel written by Zora Neale Hurston that explains how one woman, Janie Mae Crawford, asserts herself beyond expectation. ... You done been spoilt rotten" (Hurston 26). ... (Hurston 30). ... (Hurston 32). ... (Hurston 60). ...

• Word Count: 1964
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• Grade Level: High School

Zora Neale Hurston stresses this necessity of love in a life as she looks back upon Janie's life in the novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God". Taking this subject one step further, Hurston also throws out a question; "What would marriage be like without love?" Hurston provides an answer directly in Janie's daydream, which is, "bees can not live without flowers". ...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston disregarded the typical gender conventions of her time when she created Janie Mae Crawford, the main character in her book. ... (Hurston 11). ... Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it" (Hurston 23). ... Old as you is" (Hurston 79). ... (Hurston 79). ...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As Janie begins her story, she sits aside her dying Nanny, as she is presented with the challenge of never being a "spit cup" (37)* for any man, black or white, and of sitting in that high chair that her Nanny never was never allowed to sit in. This challenge becomes a burden on Janie's life that g...

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Love plays a very important role in Hurston's "Their Eyes were watching God". Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. ...

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Both Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, are multi-faceted stories with central themes that repeat themselves throughout. ... (Hurston 2) They even go as far as making jaded comments about her hair and how she carries her body, as evidenced in this quote, "What dat forty year ole "oman doin" wid her hair swingin" down her back lak some young gal?"... Unlike in Hurston's book with Janie, who is constantly under the control of others and forced to live in a repressive and controlling society, Merricat is the ...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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. ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is a novel about self-discovery, in which Janie Crawford is determined to find true love in marriage, and live life according to her terms. ...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School