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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston On January 7, 1891, Zora Neale Hurston was born in the tiny town of Notasulga, Alabama. She was the fifth of eight children in the Hurston household. Her father John was a carpenter, sharecropper, and a Baptist preacher; and her mother Lucy, a former schoolteacher. Within
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Zora Neale Hurston
* This tendency toward the picaresque colors her work. Her main characters are dreamers who long for experience and spiritual freedom and want to break with the fixity of things. * Hurston's works celebrated blackness, and she became an enthusiastic contributor to the New Negro Renaissance literary movement. * "Spunk"
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Zymborska's View of History
Frances Mae Zymborska is a living American poet, who lives today in Illinois, a part of the United States located near Indiana. She moved from familiar chronicles (the wide-read sequence "The Olde House") to biography (the award-wining Kramer: His Freinds in Poems) to history in A Runoff for Cosmo
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“bartleby, the Scrivener” and “the Man I Killed”
“Bartleby, The Scrivener” and “The Man I Killed” Bartleby was a very quiet and eccentric man who was obviously disconnected from his and everyone else life. He started out as an efficient and hard working employee but soon turned into a depressed non-functioning person. At some point during his employment
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“cell one,” and “the Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Response
Characters in “Cell One,” and “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” are faced with a choice where they can choose between a seemingly happier life or a more troubling one. In “Cell One,” Nnamabia’s parents have an ethical choice presented to them when Nnamabia steals his mother’s jewelry. His
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