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    Study Guide: Their Eyes Were Watching God (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: Their Eyes Were Watching God (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: Their Eyes Were Watching God (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    Study Guide: Their Eyes Were Watching God (A BookCaps Study Guide)

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    The perfect companion to Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.

    BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.

    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

    If you are taking the state TOEFL examination or just interested in what it entails, this book of questions will help you. 100 TOEFL questions (and answers) are included here. This book covers the written expression portion.

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    PublisherBookCaps
    Release dateDec 8, 2011
    ISBN9781465807533
    Study Guide: Their Eyes Were Watching God (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.Visit www.bookcaps.com to see more of our books, or contact us with any questions.

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      Study Guide - BookCaps

      Zora Neale Hurston’s

      Their Eyes Were Watching God

      By BookCaps Study Guides

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      www.bookcaps.com

      Historical Context

      Zora Neale Hurston was born in Alabama in 1891 and soon moved with her family to an all-black neighborhood in Florida where her father served as Mayor. She attended boarding school in Baltimore and received an Associate’s degree from Howard University where she first began to concentrate on her writing.

      Upon graduation, she studied with famed anthropologist Franz Boaz and developed a strong interest in the Harlem Renaissance. Together with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman she founded Fire! a journal that was central to the Harlem Renaissance. Their Eyes Were Watching God would have been perfect had it been published in the artsy period of the 1920’s, but she did not publish it until 1937 when the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, and the only writing that was respected had political leanings and a strong moral message.

      Richard Wright wrote a widely known criticism of Their Eyes Were Watching God considering a frivolous and pointless work. Hurston found it impossible to be published or taken seriously in the literary world after that, and ended up dying alone in a nursing home and being buried in an unmarked grave.

      The grave remained unmarked until fellow writer, Alice Walker, found it and marked the grave A genius of the south. Walker considered Hurston to be a prolific writer of the 20th century and published an essay called In Search of Zora Neale Hurston which launched Hurston into posthumous infamy and gave Their Eyes Were Watching God a place with the most memorable novels of the century.

      Plot

      Janie Crawford is a middle-aged mulatto woman who is reappearing in her old town of Eatonville, Florida after being gone for some time. The town gossips and makes assumptions about her but the only person who hears the true story is Janie’s friend Pheoby Watson who sticks up for her. Janie tells Pheoby that when she was a young girl her grandmother was anxious to marry Janie off to a successful man who would take care of her and so she did, to a much older farmer named Logan Killicks.

      Janie is bored with Logan and upset with the unromantic way he treats her. She begins flirting with a man named Joe Starks, whom she calls Jody, and eventually

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