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A 5 page essay on Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography. It describes Zora's life briefly, then analyzes two major problems with the book, namely Zora's lack of closure regarding her prophetic 'visions' and her inability to perceive herself as a member of an oppressed race. No additional sources cited.
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work was rediscovered, and has been embraced by feminists, multiculturalists, and black nationalists ever since. This is somewhat ironic, as Hurston subscribed to political views that would surprise
many of her modern fans. She had little use for the politics of race: "All clumps of people turn out to be individuals on close inspection," she said, showing throughout
her autobiography a touching but very naive faith in the essential goodness and tolerance of the white world. Her unusual viewpoints no doubt resulted from her unusual upbringing. She grew
up in Eatonville, Florida, about five miles north of Orlando. Eatonville was the first incorporated town in the United States to be founded by blacks, and thus Zora was sheltered
from the worst of Jim Crow. Hurstons father, the highly respected Rev. John Hurston, a Baptist preacher and the son of a slave, was one of Eatonville s early mayors
and wrote the town laws. Zoras mother, Lucy Hurston (called "Lulu"), was a country school teacher when she married at 16. She taught the eight Hurston children to read and
write. Zora could read before school age and was her mothers favorite child. The early death of Zoras mother and the remarriage of her father caused Zora to leave
home at an early age. Hurston described this period of her life as "a series of wanderings." She did occasional work as a wardrobe assistant with a travelling theatre troupe
until she enrolled as a full-time student at Baltimore s Morgan Academy. She moved to Washington DC in 1918 and became a part-time student at Howard University where she began
to write, attracting the attention of some of the major figures of the Harlem renaissance with her essays and short fiction. She moved to New York in 1925, and broadened
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