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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...

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

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...

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...

and proper nineteenth-century Victorian lady; Zora Neale Hurston was a plain-speaking twentieth century African-American woman wit...

to delve into such concentrated and personal subjects as these, especially in front of strangers. However, Larsen recognized the ...

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

In five pages the community representations in each of these works are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources used....

willing to relegate to someone elses power. In Walkers essay, however, the focus is on pornography and the subtle way in which it ...

refusal to come to Sykes assistance after the snake bites him represents the decline in her spirituality, the sweat of her hard wo...

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...

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...

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

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...

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

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...

be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...

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...

who will stand on her own and no longer stand for physical abuse. Her husband, however, subconsciously knows that he has no pow...

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...

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...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

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

feminism, and on the realities of women in general. Some of those statements are presented in her 1926 short story "Sweat" and he...

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