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Summary: Love between classes
Review: During a time when a man's or woman's place in life depended a great deal upon the color of his or her skin (a time which, sadly, has not yet come to an end), Hurston has produced a novel of class and prejudice even within the "lower" or "despised" class.Janie's conflict between marrying for love or for social comfort makes for a thought-provoking and at times disturbing love story. This book warrants a second read, and demands that Z.N. Hurston's other works be read. Excellent novel by someone who herself lived through it!
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Summary: Poignant Love Story!
Review: I had a hard time getting into this book at first. Hurston chooses to go with the local color and let the characters in this story speak as they actually would have for the time and location. It took awhile for me to learn to decipher this language. Once I got beyond that I found a touching love story develope between socially prominent Janie and a lower class Tea Cake. Janie has never felt love before (her grandmother married her off at age 15 to ensure that she was taken care of) and goes against her friend's advisements in running off with Tea Cake. Their love and marriage endure many hard ships, but tragedy waits just around the corner. Soapy, but one of the few African American romances I've read that rings true.
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Summary: A Milestone Piece of Literature For Both Men and Women
Review: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God truly depicts the journey of a human spirit through changes and goal reaching. I agree with the acceptance it has been given as one of the Great American Classics. Whether one is looking to read about the nation's past and its people or wanting to enhance their own personal quests in finding their "voice", this book does the job. If Hurston still lived, she would not only be a great aspiration for young writers but also an evolutionizing force in everyday literature.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I have do read this book when I was a senior in high school. I'm glad we had to read it because it is one of the finest pieces of literature I have ever read.
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Summary: Zora needs to get her due, she is beyond belief
Review: Zora Neal Hurston is one of the greatest female writers of all time. I came to know her and read her work in undergraduate school. Her writings transcend time and space. She has such a command of the Black vernacular, and the Black experience that it is unreal. She has the ability to develop a character like no one else I can think of. Her characters are great because you don't feel sorry for them or pity them, you just know and love them and can't wait to see how they deal with the situations that come up in their lives. She outdid herself with this novel, I like it much better than I liked "Jonah's Gourdvine", that was good but it could not touch this book. I love Zora and I am so sorry that I was not born during the time she flourished in her writing, I would have snapped up every peice of prose she ever wrote.
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Summary: This is great American literature?!
Review: I read Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God because it was on my required summer reading list for a class I am taking next year called Honors American Literature. There were only four books on my list, so I expected these books to be four of the best examples of great American literature ever written. Now that I have read Their Eyes Were Watching God, I have come to the conclusion that either it was a mistake and does not really belong on the list or all other works of American literature are so bad that a mediocre book like this can be considered excellent. (Having read some American literature in the past, I know the latter case cannot be true.) Don't get me wrong. It wasn't bad. It just wasn't great. I agree with many of the reviews I have read at Amazon.com. I feel the plot was easy to understand but there was no point to it. What were the themes of the book? I am still trying to make up my mind. Although Zora Neale Hurston's descriptions (of characters, places, and objects) added quite a bit to the story, her characters were very poorly developed. They came alive but never grew or changed. One thing I did love about this novel was Hurson's brilliant use of dialect. My advice: If you are looking for an o.k. book by an American author, read Their Eyes Were Watching God. If you are looking for a brilliant piece of American literature, skip it.
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Summary: A GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
Review: This is one of the finest novels ever written. It is rich and textured and beautiful. The story is big and relevent to every life. It should be widely read.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Language junkies who love seeing what a very talented writer can do with words will LOVE this book. Also, a great commentary on being a woman in the South, and on being an African American woman in the South. Anyone who aspires to be well read should add this to her list.
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Summary: This was one of the most enjoyable books that I have read.
Review: I began this book very slowly because of the dialect in which the characters spoke. Pretty soon not only did I understand the dialect but reading it outloud was a joy. Hurston writes this book as if she were writing lyrics to music. I was sad when the book was finished and wanted to read it again. I don't know when I have enjoyed an experience like reading this book.
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Summary: It's an OK book
Review: This is a good book. If you have nothing else to do except sit on the couch all day watching t.v., then you should read it. But otherwise, it's not worth it. Especially when you've got Grapes of Wrath to read and study for the SAT's.
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