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Old 12-01-2000, 10:57 AM
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Originally posted by Shelacious:
...For those who have read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by (my) Soror Zora Neale Hurston, it often takes a chapter or so to get into the swing of the dialouge because of the writting style. But it's a highly recommended book for those who haven't yet read it.
Most definitely! It's a beautifully written book - I enjoyed the story as much as the language. Of all the novels I read during Senior English in high school, this was by far my favorite. In fact, this was one of the works I analyzed for the senior paper.

The one thing I found interesting is that a lot of characters in the novel had very descriptive names - the one I remember best, of course, is Tea Cake. Does anyone know what significance Hurston meant by those names? I'd be curious to know.

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