Their Eyes Were Watching God
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000C1X8GK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 398 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael J. Mazza said Probably Hurston's greatest gift to world literature. "There Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston, is widely acknowledged as a beloved classic of American literature. This novel is truly one of those great works that remains both entertaining and deeply moving; it is a book for classrooms, for reading groups of all types, and for individual readers.In "There Eyes," Hurston tells the life story of Janie, an African-American woman. We accompany Janie as she experiences the very different men in her life. Hurston's great dialogue captures both. " But like all "great" books Kate Bell I can't remember the last time I read a book that moved me as deeply as 'Their Eyes Were Watching God." But like all "great" books, it may not be for everyone. A Millennial reader, for example, might be inclined to lose patience with a woman who spends 20 years of her life with a couple loser husbands before meeting her one true love. Even though there is no story without that context. It's also possible that an older generation of women readers, Baby Boomers, for example, may be more inclined to . I am very pleased to find Zora Hurston back in print and that Karen Fond A book club recommendation, I am very pleased to find Zora Hurston back in print and that this book sparked the discussion about who black women are in their complexity and their search for identity and actualization. I particularly liked the conversations of the men on the porch as I felt drawn into the fold and wondered where it was going and who would "win". And one cannot forget Janie's emerging consciousness into womanhood under the flowering pear tree.
Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.. Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s
Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. They sat in judgment. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. It was the time to hear things and talk. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. They became lords of sounds a