Zora Neale Hurston Journey's End Summary

Analysis of Zora Neale Hurston Despite their meticulous uniqueness, spiderwebs are commonplace. The dense connections made between each contingent strand occur in various environments all over the world and at all times. Imagining these threads illuminated alternately by moon and sunlight, however, their contexts only seem to glow more brightly. So too can works of delicately woven poesy bring from their environments new understandings and appreciations. Only when an observer can begin to believe to understand the intention of the threader, for instance, can such connections begin to resonate. In Zora Neale Hurston's “Journey's End,” the poet's sparse, dense world becomes illuminated for her readers through her speaker's intention, providing for modern readers new contexts through her webs. Without the recent illumination upon Hurston's career offered by Alice Walker, noticing these webs would be considerably more difficult. In 1973, Walker began a search for the author that resulted in an essay, “Looking for Zora,” which brought new and lasting attention to Hurston. Considering that Walker was able to trace the end of Hurston's journey to “an unmarked

Rather than being disturbed by another, Hurston demands not to be woken. It would seem, then, that her positioning in western literature, unearthed by Walker, is an effect entirely of the poet's own. Hurston's connections remained undisturbed for years after her increasingly limited participation in the Harlem Renaissance. In one sense, her webs continued to glisten for those like Walker who expected to find them. “Journey's End,” while a cryptic reprisal of the author's own beginning, demonstrates the unfaltering power of meticulous craft. Nestled now within her rightful context, works as impressive as Hurston's will continue to inspire other contexts, movements, and connections in the