Throughout the life of Zora Neale Hurston, she has accomplished all that a woman in her time could achieve. She has been a best selling author, and she has set an inspiration for women of all ages today. From the 1930's to the 1960's, she published seven books, many short stories, magazine articles, and plays and was known as an outstanding folklorist and novelist as well as being the most prolific black woman in America. She lived through a time of poverty and rough times for black people but she didn't see anything wrong with being black. She felt that her blackness was so special that others could benefit just from being around her. Her works were seen as manifestos of womanhood and shared positive aspects of black life. In her most famous story, Their Eyes Where Watching God, she depicts Janie Crawford, a 40+ year old woman who tells her life to her friend Phoebe Watson. In Their Eyes Where Watching God, Janie is trying to find love but she does not know the correct places to look for love. Her first two attempts at love, one that was forced and the other that was not equal

Before Zora Neale Hurston started to write, she was born on a small farm in Eatonville, Florida on January 7, 1891, the fifth of eight children to the late Lucy Ann Potts, a country schoolteacher, and John Hurston, a carpenter, Baptist Preacher, and mayor of the all black-town of Eatonville and the first to be incorporated as mayor in the United States. Due to her mother's early death in 1904, she was passed like a bad cold from relative to relative for the next five years and finally after being rejected by her father and his second wife, she decided to leave Eatonville, earning a job as a maid for whites but couldn't keep a job long due to her color and what the whites expected her do. (The Autobiography of Zora Neale Hurston Black History 8 Apr. 2001)

Zora blended her life and past experiences and creates a character named Janie Crawford. (The Woman Behind Janie) Janie was described as a woman who followed the ways of others to make them happy instead of making herself happy. She was also born in Eatonville, Florida. Her mother was raped by a white man and thus making Janie lighter than any others of the blacks. Unlike Zora, Janie was traded from place to place; she was saved from an early death from her Nanny. Nanny, who used to be called Alphabet, forced Janie to get married to Logan Killicks once she seen Janie leaning over the gatepost kissing Johnny Taylor. Just like Zora marriage to Herbert Sheen, Janie's marriage towards Logan Killicks did not last long. After leaving Logan she moved from Eatonville towards Maitland when she met and married Jody Starks. Zora created the character Jody Starks off her late father, as he was also three-time mayor. Jody Starks was there to fill voids of loneliness and love but he did not treat her equal. Jody was also the owner of a corner store, and Zora's second husband Albert Price III was also an owner of a small corner store. Just like any other woman probably would fill, she felt that Jody Starks didn't want her. Jody Starks got ill and died and after a while, Janie was alone again until Tea Cake came in the picture.

In the fall of 1918, Hurston entered Howard University. She managed to pay for

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