Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Love plays a very important role in Hurston's "Their Eyes were watching God ... around her neck. Janie felt as if Nanny was trying to take her horizon away from her. Janie second husband Joe Starks took her freedom. For example [Joe]: "Shet de door behind yuh, Janie. Lum is too busy wid de hawses. After more shouting of advice and orders and ... it by searching for th...

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