![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With regard to what the term home itself means, I will also elaborate on the different places Zora and Janie used to live in and on the aspects of what a home makes. I will deal with the town of Eatonville, which is the birthplace of Zora and later becomes part of the setting in "Their Eyes were watching God". In this paper I will deal with these parallels in regard to the life of Afro-American writer Zora Neale Hurston 1 and Janie, the main character in her novel `Their Eyes were watching God' with focus on setting and character.Īt first I am going to focus on what might be called home for Zora and Janie. It is quite often assumed that there is a connection between a writer's very own life and the thoughts and actions of characters in their fictional work, which seems to be obvious as very often parallels in experiences, settings and historical or political backgrounds in autobiographies and novels, for example, can be found. ![]()
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