their eyes were watching God, background Flashcards
alice walker wrote
the color purple
alice walker went to a
MLA convention
Richard Wright spoke against Their Eyes because the book is not
bitter enough about racism
Richard Wright wrote
Black boy and native son
canon is a group
that says what to read
the novel is about
protest against racism
this novel is a ____ novel
quest
the setting is an
all black town
symbols of quest
gate, road, horizon
jody separates
janie
mouth imagery early on
gossip on porch
porch-chorus represents
greek tragedies and plays
the theme is
quest
language
poetry/ southern dialect
janie doesn’t
stand up for herself
who wrote the foreword
mary helen washington
male
doesn’t grow
female
inner growth
janie is
curiously silent
most critical of Their Eyes
Richard Wright because it is not bitter enough