Two writers were on the front lines of this movement, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison. Their novels, Invisible Man and Their Eyes Were Watching God, probed deeply into the life and culture of the African-American, something that was practically unheard of. ... Both Hurston and Ellison did this beautifully, in that their stories were not forceful nor preachy, but merely simple, candid tales of the lives of two ordinary African-Americans. ... Neither Hurston nor Ellison hid any part of their culture to be politically correct; this fact is especially visible in the aut...

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Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes Were Watching God discusses a hunt for independence and self-reliance through the personal journey of the main character. ... The dream is the truth"(Hurston, 1). ... She describes how "she hated her grandmother Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon"(Hurston 85-86). ... "She knew now that marriage did not make love"(Hurston, 24). ... Her final conclusions are that "they got tuh go tuh God, and they got to find out about livin' fuh theyselves"(Hurston, 183). ...

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In the story "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston the protagonist, or main character of the story, Janie Crawford, is alienated by her society and by her culture since as long as she can remember. ... They were absolutely right, Janie was one of those rare people that come along in life and are born into unfortunate circumstances but by God's will were given the character to overcome those circumstances and find their own true identity. ... The people sitting on the porch insult her and once again try to bring her down to their level. These jealousies were best analyzed...

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Still even with the performances of black bands and singers, blacks were not allowed to be in the audience. ... "Henderson's arranger, Don Redman, and later Henderson himself, introduced written jazz scores that were widely admired for their effort to capture the quality of improvisation that characterized the music of smaller ensembles." ... (Wintz, Page 64) It was very hard at this time to get their writing out since whites ran all the publishing places. ... DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, accompanied by the writings of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. ... Q...

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African-Americans intensified their pride in culture and their yearning for acceptance as equals in the United States. ... Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. ... Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as to be the most important African American writer who wrote before World War II. She is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States, and this is shown ...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is enslaved by this emphasis on materialism and Nanny's unattainable aspirations. ... However, even when Janie escapes this unsuccessful marriage in hopes of finding freedom and happiness, she ends up becoming slave to Jody's god-like aspirations. ... The idea of Janie's "silent rebellions" is troubling as well because, while blacks were officially freed of the slave system in 1863, their metaphorical slavery is that they live in a world where they cannot speak and must internalize their pain. ... The narrator c...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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