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This 7 page paper discusses Zora Neale Hurston's use of animals and animal imagery in her classic novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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not a great success. White readers generally liked it, but black readers and critics were very harsh; the great Richard Wright said that the book "was themeless and meaningless; he
thought that by portraying her people as quaint, Hurston had exploited them" (About Their eyes were watching God, 2007). However, the book was "rediscovered" in the early 1970s; it appealed
in particular to "professors of African-American and womens literature" who began using it in college classes (About Their eyes were watching God, 2007). It was championed by Alice Walker,
the author of The color purple, who was instrumental in bringing the novel out of obscurity and back into the mainstream (About Their eyes were watching God, 2007). This
paper discusses the book with particular emphasis on the animal imagery Hurston uses and what meanings that usage carries. Discussion It can be argued that the entire novel brims over
with a sort of good-natured animalism, especially in its protagonist, Janie Crawford. When she comes walking down the street as she returns home, she seems like a lioness or a
leopard reclaiming its territory. Even the way Hurston describes her suggests something of the animal about her: "...the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in
the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspeople, who are eager to sit
in judgment on her, but she is so proud, so untamed, that she defies them simply by being in their midst. She does bring that quality with her. As she
tells her story to her friend (and to us), animal qualities and animals themselves play a large part in her retelling. In one of the books earliest episodes, Hurston uses
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