Kristina Medina English ½ 10/26/12 So you think you have game "It must be Jelly‚ ’cause jam don’t shake”‚ A Story in Harlem Slang‚ by Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Back and Jelly are two wanna-be pimps that are lost in a world full of wants just struggling to get by. Though Jelly and Sweet Back claim they have game‚ the woman that walks by‚ schools them both‚ yet she is not the one with the most game. Jelly and Sweet Back do have some game they both assume that they are better than one another
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we all have a desire to have things that are beyond what we can afford. As a result‚ we start to have strong feelings of envy and jealousy towards that people who possess what it is that we cannot have. In the short story “The Gilded Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Joe quickly became fascinated with a big talker from Chicago named Otis D. Slemmons. Otis claimed that women gave him money and adored him. This interest that Joe had with the gold accessories that Otis owned lead to problems in Joe’s
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Finding Yourself To be different is to be unique and to stand by your own judgment. Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Hurston‚ is a coming of age novel with a heartwarming romance in the 1930s by showing the integrity of the narrator‚ Janie Crawford whom tells her viewpoint of what it took to find love‚ by first finding herself. Alike‚ from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s excerpt Self-Reliance and Henry David Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience‚ these transcendentalist thinkers also believed individuals
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problems‚ hopes‚ and obsessions are addressed or avoided. Consequently‚ New Historicists argue that the best backdrop for interpreting literature is to place it in its historical context. New Historicism plays an important role in understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. There are many problems and issues that are touched by the author‚ mostly through the recollection of the main character‚ Janie Crawford. Racism is one of the main issues addressed in this
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True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way‚ even the workforce‚ regardless of race‚ gender‚ faith‚ ethnicity - or political ideology.In Their Eyes Were Watching G-d‚ by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie marries three men. The first marriage is with Logan‚ a man her nana predetermined for her to marry. Her second marriage is with a man named Jody‚ or Joe Sparks‚ who she thinks is on his way to a “richer life‚” yet‚ instead it becomes a union where she is deprived of her “voice.” Both
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they parted and Cal then starts working at the strip club owned by Bob. Because of Cal’s condition he is put in an exotic show that gains a lot of popularity in the strip club. While working at the strip club he meets Zora who lets Cal live with them. During the first day at Zora’s‚ Zora explains how hermaphrodites are both looked
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Barbara Johnson’s critique focuses on the metaphoric‚ metonymic and voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It focuses on the major character‚ Janie Crawford’s inner and outer change towards her various relationships. She focuses on the strengths‚ both vocally and physically‚ gained after her first slap down by her second husband‚ Joe Starks. Barbara Johnson focuses on the metaphoric meaning of this transformation which was defined as the substitution based on the resemblance
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The Different Styles of Writing Maturation is the main idea behind the work of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God with the main character‚ Janie‚ experiencing her coming of age as she goes through criticizing judgment almost every single day. Throughout the novel‚ Hurston uses many different metaphors to express her ideas‚ which also define the style she uses. The passage I have selected includes when Janie first arrives to town. Hurston had described the town mostly as‚ “These
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ shows the development of an African-American woman living in the 1920s and 1930s as she searches for her true identity. Janie was a half-white‚ half-black girl growing up in Florida in the early 1930 ’s‚ living with her grandmother‚ struggling to find her place in life. Janie’s transformation throughout the book shows a change through language and the development of Janie’s voice through the different stages of her life. Their Eyes Were Watching
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In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the effects of nature‚ feminism and geography are significant in the cultural and attitude changes of the characters. Zora Neale Hurston displays a mastering of symbolism in her most important work‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God. Symbols take the form of people‚ objects‚ and events‚ adding to the color and meaning of the story. Throughout the book‚ Hurston uses symbols of a pear tree‚ the horizon‚ Janie’s hair‚ the mule‚ and the devastating hurricane
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