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Group Four--EWWG

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http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm
Group Project

 

  1. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm Group Project
    1. Working together using this wiki
    2. Group members
    3. Sources
    4. Facts about the author
    5. Facts about the book

 

Working together using this wiki

 

 

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.

 

Group members

 

  • Matt S.
  • Rebcca F.
  • Dennis J

 

 

Sources

 

Souces for facts about the author

1. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/hurs-zor.htm

2. http://authors.aalbc.com/zoraneal.htm

3. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/hurston_zora_neale.html

4. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/hurstonzoraneale/p/hurston_bio.htm

 

Sources for facts about the book.

1. http://www.studyworld.com/studyworld_studynotes/jnotes/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod/MainCharacters.html

            2. http://www.enotes.com/their-eyes/

3. http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tewg/SUM.htm

 

Facts about the author

 

 

             BIRTHDATE: Jan. 7, 1891

 

Life while growing up: Praised her city of where she grew up Eatonville, as a place where African Americans

 

Attended Howard University, 1923-24; Barnard College., 1928; graduate study at Columbia University.

 

Hurston's four novels and two books of folklore are important sources of black myth and legend

 

In New York Hurston became part the New Negro movement -- later referred to as the Harlem Renaissance

 

Died on January 28, 1960 in Florida spending her time writing articles and spending time where she had grown up as a child in her later years.

 

Always tried to get away of the stereotype of African Americans so was a writer who wrote about the culture of African Americans along with putting it into fiction.

 

Facts about the book

 

          Janie is the protagonist of the novel and the narrative traces her development from naïve girl, to a self-sufficient and outspoken woman in her forties

         She is African-American but has very "white" features: light brown skin and beautiful, long, straight hair which she usually wears in a one thick braid down her   back

       When Their Eyes Were Watching God first appeared in 1937, it was well-received by white critics as an intimate portrait of southern blacks, but African- American reviewers rejected the novel as pandering to white audiences and perpetuating stereotypes of blacks as happy-go-lucky and ignorant.

      Janie's grandmother was raised during slavery, and was raped by a white man and she never had a voice

      No one disputes, though, its impressive use of metaphor, dialect, and folklore of southern rural blacks, which Hurston studied as an anthropologist, to reflect the rich cultural heritage of African-Americans.

    Her grandmother set up a wedding for Janie, because her grandmother wanted Janie to have all the stuff that she could never get. She wanted Janie to have a happier life then her grandmother had.                                           

 

 

 

 

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