Short Story Spunk

Zora Neale Hurston wrote the “Spunk” and published it in Harlem Renaissance journal in 1925. “Spunk” revolves around two main characters: Spunk Banks and Joe Kanty, who develop hatred between themselves due to a quarrel over a woman named Lena Kanty. Lena Kanty is Joe’s legitimate wife, later to be lured by Spunk Banks to abandon her legitimate husband. Spunk Banks successfully wins the love of Lena Kanty due to his heavy corporeal stature and military training. Spunk owns a .45 military hand gun, therefore, complicating attempts made by Kanty to fight for his wife. Kanty loses his life in the hands of Banks, when fighting for his wife and in the presence of his wife. Banks survives a court trial but a huge, black bob-cat in Joe’s ghost follows him afterwards in quest for vengeance for justice. Bank eventually finds his fate with a sawmill machine and succumbs to wounds sustained in this accident. Notably, both men die in the fight for a wife, where Kanty’s ghost kills Banks who previously takes the former’s life away (Hurston 105-111).

short story titled “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston about two men fighting for the woman that they love. Some stories end in happily ever after, but others end up in a tragic, like “Spunk”, one may say “fight for the person that you love”. In this story the two main characters are Spunk and Joe, they are both in love with the same woman, Lena. Spunk has a physical appearance that makes the village afraid of him, including Joe. Joe is married to Lena, but spunk want her as well. Joe was shot after he took someone’s advice that he should go after Lena, which he did and for that advice caused his death. Spunk though he won, but it was the other way around, thinking that he had Lena to himself he also found his death at the end of the story. Falling in love with someone that is already in a relationship usually results in different types of problems in the relationship like having affairs, destroying the relationship, someone getting injured, etc. In this story, Spunk and Joe have distinctive characteristics, yet they both were emotionally attracted towards Lena. Throughout the story, Spunk characteristics traits can be depicted as an unsociable, daring, and ambitious person.

Zora Neale Hurston’s use of language in her short story Spunk allows the reader to become part of the community in which this story takes place. The story is told from the point of view of the characters, and Hurston writes the dialogue in their broken English dialect. Although the language is somewhat difficult to understand initially, it adds to the mystique of the story. Spunk is a story about a man that steals another man’s wife, kills the woman’s husband and then he ends up dying from an accident at the saw mill. Spunk believed that it was Lena’s husband, Joe Kanty, who shoved him into the circular saw, and the people in the village agreed that Joe Kanty had come back to get revenge. The language used by the characters helps to

Leading many a hero astray with their good looks and sweet words, the seductress is one of the oldest and most common archetypes, and it is prevalently employed by Zora Neale Hurston in develop the themes in her stories. The enchantress archetype is used in “Spunk” to develop the subject of masculinity and power. In “Spunk”, the namesake character Spunk is a fearless man has found himself bewitched by the wife of Joe. He uses his manliness to make himself desirable towards her, saying "ah'll git the lumber foh owah house to-morrow... when youse inside don't forgit youse mine, an' let no other man git outa his place wid you!"(Hurston). Joe attempts to overcome his cowardice and attempts to establish dominance to win his wife back.

After recently read a short story titled “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston about two men fighting for the woman that they love. Some stories end in happily ever after, but others end up in a tragic, like “Spunk”, one may say “fight for the person that you love”. In this story the two main characters are Spunk and Joe, they are both in love with the same woman, Lena. Spunk has a physical appearance that makes the village afraid of him, including Joe. Joe is married to Lena, but spunk wants her as well. Joe was shot after he took someone’s advice that he should go after Lena, which he did and for that advice caused his death. Spunk thought he

Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901. She was raised in Eatonville, Florida. Zora went to Howard University and progressed on to Barnard College. Zora’s work reflected the use of African American legends in her short stories. Zora Hurston is a vital figure who composed stories and plays during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. She was committed to telling the stories of many cultures to allocate their social legacy with deference and love with an end goal to beat the unrefined stereotyping of the period. In 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora wrote a story called “Spunk”. In the story “Spunk”, Zora used the literary terms like character, setting, and

The short story, “Spunk”, written in 1920 by famous author, Zora Neale Hurston of Eatonville, FL, contains many characters but there’s only one that I find to be very amazing, Mr. Joe Kanty. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, author and folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston, constructed many of her works like: “The Gilded Six-Bits”, “Spunk”, and “Their Eyes were watching God,” during the Civil Rights movement to help fuel the setting and purpose of her stories. In the short story, “Spunk”, Mr. Joe’s characters’ transitions or changes to help portray the hero and bravery him. Three character traits that determine Joe’s behavior or inner self throughout the story relates from him being loving and fearful to him becoming revengeful.

Everybody in their life has made mistakes, but there is a difference between the small mistakes that people make on a daily basis, and those that can cause life-altering events. In the three Zora Neal Hurston stories, “Sweat,” “Spunk,” and “The Gilded Six Bit,” characters all make terrible mistakes that affect the people that they love most. The outcomes of each story though are very different as the characters face tough choices and deal with them in very different ways. Though these situations deal with many of the same issues, the ability or inability for those in the stories to forgive individuals shows their true character and values.

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The short story Spunk by Zora Neal Hurston's depicted a deadly love triangle. A strong theme throughout the story was fear, although, the fear shifted from Joe to Lena to Spunk. Initially, Joe was fearful of Spunk, but Elijah toyed with his emotions and convinced him to go after spunk with a razor blade, forcing Spunk to kill Joe in an act of self-defense. Then, the fear shifted to Lena, she was devastated about witnessing the death of her husband, but not for long, in no time she was engaged to Spunk, her husband’s killer. It’s also important to mention that another major theme of this story was manliness, Spunk and Joe were constantly being contrasted. However, one day, Joe's manhood took a blow of its own—a bobcat showed up at his home and

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