Hey! I'm Allison S. and my English class is beginning to read the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This novel is about Janie Crawford and her life in poverty. It is told from the point of view of Janie telling her friend Phoeby the stories of her life so that Phoeby can tell them back to the neighbors. There are three different periods in Janie's life which correspond to the three different men that she was married to. This book was not very popular among Hurston's peers at the time that she wrote it because they believed that she was being stereotypical to African Americans. This book was not rediscovered and made popular until after Hurston's death.Monday, April 26, 2010
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Hey! I'm Allison S. and my English class is beginning to read the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This novel is about Janie Crawford and her life in poverty. It is told from the point of view of Janie telling her friend Phoeby the stories of her life so that Phoeby can tell them back to the neighbors. There are three different periods in Janie's life which correspond to the three different men that she was married to. This book was not very popular among Hurston's peers at the time that she wrote it because they believed that she was being stereotypical to African Americans. This book was not rediscovered and made popular until after Hurston's death.
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