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Summary: Excellent, moving, thought provoking story.
Review: I recently read this book as a result of my exploring the works of harlem renaissance writers. I read the book in one day because I could not put it down. Hurston is an extremely talented writer. I got this book from the library but I plan to purchae it. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: it was very exciting
Review: Their eyes were watching God is a excellent book. I had to read this book my junior year of high school. I really enjoyed it and know it's one of my favorite books. I like everything about the book. I love the parts when she was married the first time because her mother wanted her to have security. Then she married the second time because he was an exciting person and she thought he loved her. That's what she was looking for LOVE. I forgot if she married tcake but he treated her right and they love each other. I think it was kind of sad at the end how she had to shot him because he had rabies and was going to kill her, especially threw the storm when they found that guy in the house unhurt from the strom and they had to go threw all that. I think this is a story everyone should read because it really tells how deep you should go in a marriage, and what real love is.
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Summary: This is an awesome novel.
Review: Using beautiful prose along with Southern vernacular, Zora Neale Hurston molds the masterpiece of a woman who is unsatisified with life. The tale is beautiful and powerful.
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Summary: I am unable to summarize my apriciation of this novel
Review: I just finished this book, and now I understand why it is so important to Alice Walker. I felt as if the scope and importance of this tale had always been a part of me, and that Hurston only illuminated it within me so I could see. I would recommend this book to any and all, it should be widely read. For now, I think I will go read it again.
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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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