Alice Walker goes to Eatonville, Florida to find out what Zora Neale Hurston was actually about. She was in need of understanding how she passed away and just everything about her. She is told that she passed away from malnutrition something she didn't believe, later on in her investigation of Hurston's life she find out that she was a woman of over 200 pounds and died of a stroke making it ironic to have been said that she died of food shortage. She also learns that she was a tough, and very interesting woman. She wrote books through out her whole life.
Walker not only begins to understand what Hurston went through, but also compares her own life to what happened to her. Although, she didn't personally know Hurston, she cared because she was a woman of the same race of her. They were much alike and were parallel to each other in the things that they believed. Walker shows her respect and her interest in Hurston's life by making her the tomb stone her family never did and also by all the lies she had to say in order to find out what Zora Neale Hurston was about.
What do you believe was the most important thing Walker learned from Zora's past?
ReplyDelete@Devan: Her actual relationship with her family.
DeleteI like how you showed how both Walker and Hurston are alike, which made it easier for Walker to understand and admire the kind of person that Zora was.
ReplyDelete@Jade: Yes, and I also think that was the reason for Walker's exploration, she wanted to know more about the women she was alike to.
DeleteWould you do something the same as Alice if an amazing author like Zora was ever lost ? If so why ?
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