Their Eyes Were Watching God /Zora Neale Hurston (summary in tamil)

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  • Zora Neale Hurston
    Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologist and writer during the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a time when many African-American writers and artists thrived. They offered a new view of the experiences of Black Americans through their art and writing.
    Zora Neale Hurston was born and raised in the southern part of the United States. She was born in Alabama but moved to Florida when she was very young. She loved literature, and her quest to understand people, as well as the way cultures develop, led her to New York City, where she studied anthropology at Barnard College, the sister school to Columbia University.
    At the time Hurston was studying anthropology, the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, and its center was in Harlem, just ten blocks north of Barnard. Hurston began writing about African-American culture and quickly became a celebrated member of the Harlem Renaissance when her story 'Spunk' was included in the famous collection The New Negro.
    Hurston's views of life as an African-American woman can be seen in her most famous work, the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God Synopsis
    Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of Janie Crawford, whose life is a quest to find true love. Janie narrates the story of her three marriages and her search for love to her friend Phoeby.
    When Janie is young, her grandmother sets her up with a man named Logan Killicks, who becomes Janie's first husband. Logan treats Janie like a child and expects her to meekly obey him. But Janie is strong willed and refuses. When Logan threatens to kill Janie, she runs away with Joe Starks, a handsome and charming man.
    Joe and Janie move to Eatonville, Florida, which was the first all-black town in America, and the place where Zora Neale Hurston spent most of her childhood. Janie thinks that she might be happy for the first time. But Joe, like Logan, has very rigid definitions of gender roles and expects Janie to support him and not argue with him. Janie is too outspoken for this, and she and Joe have a rocky relationship. Joe eventually dies, leaving Janie independent.
    After Joe dies, Janie falls in love with a man named Tea Cake. They get married and move to the everglades of Florida. Janie finally has the love that she has longed for, and she and Tea Cake are happy, despite the fact that they're both occasionally jealous of each other. When a hurricane hits, though, things take a darker turn. A rabid dog attacks Janie, and when he tries to save her, Tea Cake gets bitten by the dog and contracts rabies. As a result, he begins to go mad, and he eventually tries to shoot Janie. She kills him in self-defense and is put on trial for murder.
    At the trial, Tea Cake's black male friends show up to condemn Janie, but a group of white women from the town show up to defend her. The all-white jury sets her free, and she returns to Eatonville, where she meets up with her friend Phoeby and tells her life story.

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