Epilogue To Gwaine Hurston's Narrative

He was confused about his virginity and could not foresee how he would react in front of the prostitute. However he thought the prostitute would at least offer an opportunity to practice his sexual skills. "…. When I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a hulluva lot of trouble just finding what I'm looking for" (Chapter 13).

Zora Neale Hurston, known as one of the most symbolic African American women during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930’s. Hurston was known as a non fiction writer, anthropologist and folklorist. Hurston’s literature has served as a big eye opener during the Harlem Renaissance, celebrating black dialect and their traditions. Most of her published stories “depict relationships among black residents in her native southern Florida, was largely unconcerned with racial injustices” (Bomarito 89). Hurston was unique when it came to her racial point of views, promoting white racism instead of black racism. Even though her works had been forgotten by the time of her death, now her literature has left a bigger impact to future literature

Zora Neale Hurston is unequivocally open about her race and identity in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” As Hurston shares her life story, the reader is exposed to Hurston’s self-realization journey about how she “became colored.” Hurston utilizes her autobiographical short story as a vehicle to describe the “very day she became colored.” Race is particularly vital in Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” as she deals with the social construct of race, racism, and sustaining one’s cultural identity.

with her older sister, Rosaura, in the hope that by marrying her, he will have ample

On January 7, 1891, Zora Neale Hurston was born in the tiny town of Notasulga, Alabama. She was the fifth of eight children in the Hurston household. Her father John was a carpenter, sharecropper, and a Baptist preacher; and her mother Lucy, a former schoolteacher. Within a year of Zora's birth, the family moved to Eatonville, Florida; a town, which held historical significance as the first, incorporated Black municipality in the United States.

“But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem”(Zora Neale Hurston). Hurston is arguing that there are more issues than black or white. There is also sexism, classism and there is more than one inequity. Minorities need to look at the problem as a whole and address more than just the race problem. (transition) A diseased language model uses words to oppress others, and are born out of fear. A model is diseased because it will deliver sickness and death. Cixous identified language models and said that they are the bane of our existence. She said they were introduced to us young and limited us from moving fluidly through our lives. By using these types

She promised herself she wouldn’t get into anything complicated, but she deserved to have fun. And this man was fun.

Hurston uses the sun metaphor to represent Janie’s troublesome journey to find herself. The symbol of the sun is used to show that time is passing and that Janie is moving on from one thing to another. Just before Janie leaves Logan and her first marriage, Janie looks over at Logan and notices that “the sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers (31).” The diction that Hurston uses implies a negative tone. Using words like “ambush”, “threatening”, and “daggers” shows that this is a serious point in the story. Janie decides at this moment to move on from her first marriage and in doing so setting off to try and make a better life for herself. Unfortunately Janie quickly jumps into a new relationship with Jody so she never has

Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Alabama. She is known to be one of the most influential novelist of the twentieth century in African America literature. Hurston is described to be a very opinionated woman that stood for what she believed in; which reflected in some of her works. In addition to her many titles such as, being an anthropologist and short story writer, she was closely related and heavily focused on the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston and her political opinions placed her at odds with important figures during that time which I wholeheartedly believe played a part in the undeniable attraction that most people have towards her works. Being that Hurston was such a unique writer, to understand the ethics and themes of her and how she contributed to African American literature comes with an understanding of the background and childhood she had.

He even mentions that he didn 't leave her to betray her but he left her to support her and their kids; to give them a life they could enjoy, “My motive was the best; so we 'd live well and not be poor.” He goes on to tell her that all women are the same; as long as they are satisfied at home, life is well but “let there be some setback or disaster in the bedroom and suddenly you go against the things

She would even trade sexual favors for gifts from them. She would end this by satisfying her husband's desire: love…”Yet he felt flattered in his heart because, he thought it showed how fond of him I was” (Bath 267). It was all a game to her.

It’s possible that he doesn’t know anything about true love or he was just desperate to see another person, but she caught his attention enough to make him wake up from his thousands of years sleep. When they travel the nation, “he meets other women” (36). Admittedly

But what is perfection? What was he actually looking for? Women are all different and it is hard to find one woman that has all the qualities he was after. “I won’t fall in love unless the women is perfect. She has to be wealthy. A Harvard graduate, or is Yale better? Either way, she must be intelligent! She must also be beautiful, inside and out of course! I want my friends to be jealous of how beautiful she is.”

queer-eyed girl was the one he longed for. Nor did he want her because of her money,

to beg and made offers to her that at last she granted him her love and swore