... the works of Zora Neale Hurston. Both authors show many similar ideas in their books. One similarity between the two authors was what they based the book on. Zora and Alice wrote their books on black women, and the struggles they went through. Alice Walker is following the foot steps of Zora Neale Hurston, when writing The Color Purple. Zora influenced ... Walker, because Zora wrote about a woman struggling to find love and Walker. There are many similarities between the two authors. In their novels both Janie and Celie get married at a young age, to someone that ... , Janie with Tea Ca...

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... these two writing techniques makes the novel more appealing to the senses and more entertaining to read. Zora Neale Hurston writes this novel with such mastery, that Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker says about Their Eyes Were Watching God, "There is no book more important to me than this one." ...

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... Janie's three marriages and what went on in them. It is like Hurston put three stories into one book. I really enjoyed how the story progressed and how it was written. Alice walker enjoyed Hurston's writing so much that she tracked down her unmarked grave and put up a headstone that reads: " Zora Neale Hurston; "A Genius of the South; Novelist Folklorist; Anthropologist; 1901-1960 ... ...

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... this book you could have learned a million of things besides the ones I decided to talk about. Some might have been more important that others, but you still learned something. I think Alice Walker said it best in the foreword when she says, "There is no book more important to me than this one." I feel that is the truth, because I have learned more from ... ...

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