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on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

home at an early age. Hurston described this period of her life as "a series of wanderings." She did occasional work as a wardrobe...

This paper examines the sexuality featured in this 1948 final novel by Zora Neale Hurston in five pages. Five sources are cited i...

This paper examines how Zora Neale Hurston was able to coexist in both white and black literary circles in eight pages. Eight sou...

Clack or 'African time' is conceptually defined within the context of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston in a pape...

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between society and the individual as represented by the female protagonists of...

In eight pages this paper discusses how social evolution is represented in the characters of Janie Woods in Hurston's Their Eyes W...

In six pages Walker takes inspiration from Winnie Mandela and Zora Neale Hurston in presenting her own personal interpretation of ...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

In seven pages this consideration of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston analyzes how folklore functions. Three sources are cited...

In a paper consisting of two pages this paper discusses how the action of this novel by Zora Neale Hurston is propelled by the pro...

Ini nine pages this paper applies Janet St. Clair's essay to the 'whiteness' of the character Jim in this analysis of Seraph on th...

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

her age and a man that treats her badly. In many ways he enslaves her and she feels helpless to leave him. Finally, Janie shares t...

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...

Killicks, an much older, but a very successful man. For Janies grandmother, freedom equates with having the financial security to ...

the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring whic...

and that in the poems, he tried to transform these incidents and situations by way of his imagination and present them in a manner...

most enthusiastic, and probably the most complete celebration of the myth of nature. The popular conception of Wordsworths att...