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Major Works

Zora neale Hurston spent her childhood in Eatonville, a town where black people settled on their own, learning about the spirit of self-affirmation and the sense of unity with an independent and proud black community. This experience has had a profound impact on her life and work. She felt a severe sadness as her young mother died. She left her hometown and experienced in different areas. Hurston graduated from Howard University and Barnard College with a degree in various sciences after she left her hometown in her teens. As an anthropologist, she majored in cultural anthropology at the university and has been recognized by the public as an African American folklore that is an important asset of human culture that is worth studying academically. In the 1970s, black women 's literature formed a distinctive critical flow, and Hurston was positioned in a pioneering position in the tradition of black women' s literature, leading to Alice Walker, Tony Morrison and Tony Cade Bambara. In the 1990s, her works have been highlighted as one of the most important literary readings of American universities. In 1921, when she was 24 years old, she began her career at the university literary magazine by publishing a short film, "Going to the Sea of ​​Reading." Hurston published four feature novels, 36 short stories and one play and autobiography. At the time of the presentation, She did not receive much attention from the paragraph. Harlem Renaissance played a huge role in her life. Huston is an impressive novelist. Her most important novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" shows that a beautiful black and white mixed-race woman matures as she undergoes three marriages and eventually regains her happiness. This novel vividly depicts the lives of black people working in the southern United States. Zora Neale Hurston, a pioneer of the women's movement, influenced modern writers such as Alice Walker and Tony Morrison through.

How it feels to be colored me

“How it feels to be colored me” is one of the most famous books written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1928. In the novel, Zora explains a life of an African American woman in the early 20^th century. Zora was raised in a small town called Eastonville in Florida that only has black community in it. However, as she moved to Jacksonville for boarding school, This is the point where everything of her life totally changed. She felt something that she had never felt. She started facing racial differences and discriminations. As she spent her early age where only black people stay, she did not find her race as problems. However, in Jacksonville, she started to learn that her race can be a problem. At a jazz club which she went with her white friend, Zora enjoyed the music but she found that her white friend was not enjoying it. In this novel, she faces the racial problems and discriminations and fight for it. Tones of this short novel reveal strength, empowerment, and pride of her race. During the entire novel, she faced "self-conflict" which although she loves her dark skin and race, the whole society does not agree with her. She is asking herself and deal with it. The interesting point of this novel is that she compared each race with different colored bags. Inside these bags, nobody knows what is in it. Although it has fancy color outside, it may have a thorn that can hurt others. Zora’s main point is clearly shown in her use of metaphors. There is one famous quote from the novel which is "I am not tragically colored". People must not view someone by their race. Until we see and feel what is in their inside, we can’t judge them. Another interesting point of the novel is that Hurston keeps talking about the “difference”. As she mentioned, she did not feel the difference in Eastonville but she did in Jacksonville. Having different skin colors does not mean that we are different. Two of her points are similar since both talk about “race.”

Their eyes were watching God

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is one of the most well-known novels of Zora Neale Hurston. It is published in 1937.This is a story of Janie Crawford. Most of the story is Jannie Crawford telling others about her life after she left hometown Eastonville in Florida. Her story is mostly about the men she loved and how the relationship ended. Her first love was her grandmother who raised her. Then, she loved Logan Killicks who is her first husband. Her second marriage was with Joe Stars. Joe was rich, charismatic and ambitious. However, Joe did not seem to love and respect Jannie. Jannie’s last love was a migrant worker Tea Cake. Tea Cake was the one Jannie searched for her lifetime. Jannie’s life with Tea Cake was full of happiness. However, Tea Cake died at the end of the story. Then Jannie moved to her hometown, Eastonville. "Their eyes were watching the gods," is the story of a repressed black woman portrayed by the pioneer of black women literature, Zoran Neil Huston. This is the representative work of Zoran Neale Huston, who is recognized as a pioneer of African American women's literature. This work has a long process of searching for own femininity and voices as an independent through the three marriages. This is a story of Janie, who has been married three times with three different men. Jannie who is black and also the woman at the same time overcomes the oppression of male the male-centered patriarchal existence in White society and Black society as well.

Spunk

Spunk is the short story written by Zora Neale Hurston. There are three interesting characters in the story. Spunk is a big, brave and strong man. However, Joe Kanty is a small and weak man. Lena is the wife of Joe Kanty who ran away from her husband with Spunk. Joe went to find Spunk and Lena with a razor. Spunk shoot him as soon as he noticed that Joe is trying to attack. Spunk married to Lena after the death of Joe. At the almost end of the story, when Spunk faced bobcat while working at the sawmill. He thought of Joe when he saw the bobcat and this made him fearful. Spunk fall into mill blade which leads to death. Zora Neale Hurston always interested in women's issues. From the story, we can clearly catch the point that two men are fighting over one woman Lena. This is an example of the male dominant society where the woman only forced to follow the stronger man. The stronger man in the story is Spunk. On the other hand, that stronger man Spunk also died and this sounds as that there is no stronger or weaker man. We are all equal and physical strength does not mean that we are strong. 

There is actually an award called "The Zora Neale Hurston Award" which