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Their Eyes Were Watching God SparkNotes Literature Guide
SparkNotes Literature Guides:
Making the reading experience fun!
 
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
 
Includes:
  • An A+ Essay—an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book—to show students how a paper should be written.
  • 16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary of literary terms
  • Step-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essay
  • A feature on how not to plagiarize
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Their Eyes Were Watching God SparkNotes Literature Guide
SparkNotes Literature Guides:
Making the reading experience fun!
 
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
 
Includes:
  • An A+ Essay—an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book—to show students how a paper should be written.
  • 16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary of literary terms
  • Step-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essay
  • A feature on how not to plagiarize
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Their Eyes Were Watching God SparkNotes Literature Guide

Their Eyes Were Watching God SparkNotes Literature Guide

by Zora Neale Hurston, SparkNotes
Their Eyes Were Watching God SparkNotes Literature Guide

Their Eyes Were Watching God SparkNotes Literature Guide

by Zora Neale Hurston, SparkNotes

Overview

SparkNotes Literature Guides:
Making the reading experience fun!
 
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
 
Includes:
  • An A+ Essay—an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book—to show students how a paper should be written.
  • 16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary of literary terms
  • Step-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essay
  • A feature on how not to plagiarize

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781411469877
Publisher: Spark
Publication date: 02/04/2014
Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide Series , #60
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 145,180
Product dimensions: 9.90(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and folklorist, is best known for her book Their Eyes Were Watching God. Other classics include the acclaimed short story Sweat. She was deemed "one of the greatest writers of our time" by the novelist Toni Morrison. With the publication of Lies and Other Tall Tales, The Skull Talks Back, and What's the Hurry, Fox? new readers will be introduced to her extraordinary legacy.

Date of Birth:

January 7, 1891

Date of Death:

January 28, 1960

Place of Birth:

Eatonville, Florida

Place of Death:

Fort Pierce, Florida

Education:

B.A., Barnard College, 1928 (the school's first black graduate). Went on to study anthropology at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Context1
Plot Overview5
Character List7
Analysis of Major Characters11
Janie11
Tea Cake12
Jody Starks13
Themes, Motifs & Symbols15
Language: Speech and Silence15
Power and Conquest as Means to Fulfillment16
Love and Relationships Versus Independence16
Community17
Race and Racism17
The Folklore Quality of Religion18
Hair19
The Pear Tree and the Horizon19
The Hurricane19
Summary & Analysis21
Chapters 1-221
Chapters 3-424
Chapter 526
Chapter 629
Chapters 7-832
Chapters 9-1035
Chapters 11-1237
Chapters 13-1440
Chapters 15-1643
Chapters 17-1846
Chapter 1949
Chapter 2051
Important Quotations Explained55
Key Facts61
Study Questions & Essay Topics65
Study Questions65
Suggested Essay Topics68
Review & Resources69
Quiz69
Suggestions for Further Reading74
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