Essays 61 - 90
and proper nineteenth-century Victorian lady; Zora Neale Hurston was a plain-speaking twentieth century African-American woman wit...
the house, knowing it will frighten his wife. In fact, in the first scene of the story, Sykes sneaks up on Delia and tosses his b...
Voodoo is the focus of this paper consisting of eleven pages and considers how it is depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's writings and...
This research paper critically reevaluates Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road originally published in 1942 i...
context to some extent, while also understanding the social and political oppression the African American people experienced at th...
essay that illustrates her story about being African American is not every African Americans story and in truth it is quite differ...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
first introduced to the condescending nature of men in general when one man says, in relationship to the state of the house, "Not ...
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is a vital piece of literature that explores what it takes to be ones own self. A seminal novel, Zo...
In five pages this paper discusses the political disadvantages experienced by Dr. William Miller and Janie Crawford in the novels ...
over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...
you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...
as he begins to physically and emotionally abuse her. She eventually comes to a point where she strikes back at him, arguing that ...
be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these two novels in an examination of their similarities and differences. There a...
In 8 pages this paper contrasts and compares the characters of Janie and Olenka in these works by Hurston and Chekhov. Two source...
are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...
leave him. Finally, Janie shares that when her grandmother passes away she seeks her own freedom and runs away from Logan. Many do...
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...
"deplored any joyful tendencies" in her, she was "their Zora" (Hurston). She was a confident young girl and this was a very impo...
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...
it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...
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...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...
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...
who will stand on her own and no longer stand for physical abuse. Her husband, however, subconsciously knows that he has no pow...
Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...
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...
husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...