Cards A. Hurston‚ Zora Neale. "Sweat." The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. Oxford [England: Oxford UP‚ 1992. 352-60. Print. * A1. “Just then something long‚ round‚ limp‚ and black fell upon her shoulders and slithered to the floor beside her. A great terror took hold of her.” (Hurston) Imagery of a snake. Snakes represent evil‚ and Delia is terrified of snakes. * A2. “Two months after the wedding he had given her the first brutal beating” (Hurston) Sykes has
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the close doors of people ’s homes. Also‚ what makes it worse is that most of these women‚ who are the victims to these crimes‚ don ’t go and seek help‚ they just bottle up their emotions and angers and keep to themselves. In "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the main character‚ Delia‚ is a hard working wife in Florida who makes ends meat from her job cleaning other peoples clothes. She is a very good women but her husband‚ Sykes‚ is always trying to pick fights with her and harasses her with more methods
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lived Grandma’s way‚ now Ah mean tuh live mine” (Hurston 114). Janie has been living the life her grandmother planned out for her‚ but she is unhappy‚ so she has decided to start over and go her own way. Janie is the better feminist protagonist for her time period; unlike Blanche‚ she makes choices based on her own beliefs and desires rather than worrying about how those around her may perceive her. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston uses vivid imagery and metaphors paired with
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speech is used by many authors in order to give a sense of realism to their writing. In "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston‚ every character speaks in colloquial speech. This style of writing gives the reader a real sense of the South in a way no other style of writing can. Dialogue is how Hurston gets her point across using colloquial speech in writing her dialogue her dialogue. When Hurston uses colloquial speech in the story‚ she characterizes people who are poor black citizens in the South. The colloquial
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more effective. In the essay “How it Feels to be Colored Me”‚ written by Zora Neale Hurston‚ metaphors are used so that she can identify herself as a person‚ rather than by the color or her skin. Hurston feels as though she is often overlooked‚ or written off because she is African American. the writing proves otherwise. This is why Hurston uses metaphors effectively to explain her identity to the reader. Hurston depicts herself as a confident young women through the use of metaphors‚ while also
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Indiana State University Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston by Lynda Marion Hill Review by: Australia Tarver African American Review‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 2 (Summer‚ 1999)‚ pp. 362-365 Published by: Indiana State University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2901288 . Accessed: 12/01/2015 03:53 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Essay Zora Neale Hurston has come to be regarded as an experienced writer in both African American literature and women ’s literature‚ for her use of literary elements such as symbolism‚ motifs and imagery. One of Hurston’s most celebrated novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ in which she uses many examples of symbolism such as the mule‚ Janie’s hair‚ and the pear tree to illustrate to the readers the many trials of which her characters overcome. Zora Neale Hurston utilizes symbolism in Their
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probably doesn’t occur in most African Americans’ heads. However‚ in her 1928 essay‚ Zora Neale Hurston gives a vivid firsthand experience. In this piece‚ Hurston describes life growing up African-American not only in her community of Eatonville‚ Florida as a child‚ but also as she moved to Jacksonville to attend school in her teenage years‚ and as she became an adult living in New York City. Hurston explains to us through this passage that even though she is aware of her skin color‚ she does not
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learns valuable lessons‚ has progressively better relationships‚ and realizes how a person is to live his or her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie’s marriages to Logan Killicks‚ Jody Starks‚ and Tea Cake seem like the most crucial elements in her development as a woman. Throughout the story Hurston uses different men to portray the continuum that men fall into in their society. Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks seems like the first stage in her development as
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Zora Hurston‚ from the Harlem Renaissance‚ paints a different picture in a different era of what it means to live in America as an African American. Hurston shows her audience a transition in the lifestyle of African Americans going from poverty and depression to a period of joy and humor. In Hurston’s short story “The Gilded Six-Bits”‚ a particular scene towards the beginning exemplifies the superb life quality of African Americans in “The New Negro” era through the use of language. Hurston opens
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