Despite its profound position, the novel Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston has been challenged of its place in high school student's education by parents and educational groups. ... However, Their Eyes were Watching God should contain its place in the high school English curriculum because of two reasons: its significance in American History and the moral of love and self-expression. ... "A parent objected to the novel [Their Eyes were Watching God]'s language and sexual explicitness" (Banned And/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course To...

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author, Zora Neale Hurston uses a technique called symbolism with the characters to create a story. ... She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in seven weeks, which was published on September 18, 1937. ... In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston describes the journey of Janie Crawford, the main character, to find herself. ... In their society the rank of people is determined first by their color, and then by their gender. ... In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses symbolism to show how the society and the time...

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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). ...

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a middle-aged black women named Janie Crawford who lives in Eatonville, Florida. ... Janie being a naive women believed that their marriage still can work. ... She wants to run away but she knows there was no were else for her to go. ... Other couples are jealous of their relationship. ... Their Eyes Were Watching God was very will written as she gives us an outlook how women was perceived back then and how they was not able to have their own, but somehow the character of Janie Crawford shows us different. ...

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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. ... Both Hurston and Ellison did this beautifully, in that their stories were not forceful nor preachy, but merely simple, candid tales of the lives of two ordinary African-Americans. ... In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston employs slang and colloquial language throughout the novel. ... They were flawed. They were confused. ...

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Still even with the performances of black bands and singers, blacks were not allowed to be in the audience. ... "Henderson's arranger, Don Redman, and later Henderson himself, introduced written jazz scores that were widely admired for their effort to capture the quality of improvisation that characterized the music of smaller ensembles." ... (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's loss of...

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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...

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