... your reading? Of course the answer would always be nothing whether I learned something or not, because I never really took any time to think about the question. When I finished the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and was given the question I actually thought about it. Through extensive thought I have learned not to live by the values of others. It is a luxury to have a best friend ... you can trust. The gender roles in the book are clearly and relatively unquestioned. I have also learned from this book to be loyal to the people you love. In the novel there ... is the only one who v...

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• Grade Level: High School

... literature, as in life, a reader can either be comfortable or out of place. The way one of these feelings is decided is through atmosphere. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston gives her readers a great deal of atmosphere. This ambiance is provided through both her narration and her dialogue, and it's not always ... This is because once again Hurston is not providing us with a physical description of anything really. She has not introduced her main character; instead we are left to hear a very subjective relation of a character we have yet to meet. Why give the reader all ...

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• Grade Level: High School