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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ISBN: 0-8335-6439-0 Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.40 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (284 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Unusual American Classic
Comment: I bought this book because it was on Amazon's Top 100 list. I never heard of the book before (embarrassing as I'm 30), but gave it a try. I find this book truly fascinating, especially given the context of the authors life (contemporary of Richard Wright, worked as a maid). It is a singing, lyrical book, full of hope for a life well lived and a love that's fought for to keep alive. Especially rich was the dramatic distinction in the book between southern black English of the time, seen in the dialogue, and the author's proper, university-level English, seen in the commentary. These juxtapositions alone made the book, though the story itself is absorbing. Consummately optomistic while attacking society at the same time, I prefer her to the dark, nihilistic writings from her contemporaries. I rarely read books twice, but I am guessing that I will pick this book up again in another ten years.
Rating: 3
Summary: "blacklove?!"
Comment: On the back cover of my edition of the book, there is a quote that refers to the novel as "the most exemplary novel of Blacklove that we have." At first, I hadn't the slightest idea what this meant; the actually struck me as being kind of funny. After reading it though, the meaning started to become clear. Hurston's characters in this book are portrayed as people, rather than just black people. Hurston shows their disagreements, loves, and wishes as belonging to real people, that exist in their own right, rather than as an oppressed underclass, or a contrast to the white world. Racial struggle is, in fact, rarely mentioned in the book. After I read this, I started on Native Son, and in the first five pages I saw more references to oppression and inequality and so forth than in Huston's entire book. With some minor story changes, and a change of the dialect, the story could be about any group of people, as the plot does not depend on everyone's emotions being entirely fixed on the one idea of a racially unjust society.
Hurston's other achievement here, I think, in addition to the universal feling of the story, the contrast of two rich voices. The blend of the "pure" English of the narration and the black dialect voice of the characters comes out stronger than if either had been used exclusively.
I was supposed to read this book for English class last year, but didn't get very far into it. I picked it up again later though, and I'm glad I did.
Rating: 3
Summary: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Comment: I was required to read this book in class. Although many of my peers disliked it, I found Their Eyes Were Watching God to be an interesting book. The vernacular dialect made it hard to read but I enjoyed the theme of love throughout the book. I was interested in the lessons that Janie, the main character, learned through each person that she met throughout her journey. I was interested in all of the African-American culture that filled this book. I would not recommend this book to everyone but it would be good for anyone who wants to broaden their horizons.
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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Cliffs Notes) by Megan E. Ash ISBN: 0764586610 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Awakening by Kate Chopin ISBN: 0380002450 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 10 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ISBN: 0679732764 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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