Zora Neale Hurston Research Paper

Find Yourself

“Those that don’t got it, can’t show it, those that got it, can’t hide it” (¨Google bestows author Zora Neale Hurston...¨). If you are genuinely passionate about something, it is going to show without effort, but if it does not, you do not have anything to show. After attending a variety of universities and colleges, she went to Howard University, where she began writing short stories and received a scholarship. Furthermore, she went ahead and transferred to Barnard College. Before she transferred she published her first story called, ¨John Redding Goes to Sea¨. In 1936 Zora was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for collecting many folklore around the world, especially in Hadi. African American novelist and poet, Zora Neale Hurston,

Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7,1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. She was a daughter of two former slaves, John a baptist preacher/ carpenter and Lula, a segmistress. She was the fifth out of seven children, her mother had passed when she was 13 years old. Zora was sent to Jacksonville, Florida by her father because she did not get along with her step-mother. Zora Neale Hurston was passed down from relative to relative mostly all of her life. During her early adulthood, she studied at different universities and colleges in the South looking for folklore. While she was out of the country she was charged for molesting a 10 year old, although this was an erroneous accusation, she had no documentation that could prove it otherwise. She lived in St. Lucie County Welfare Home where she suffered numerous strokes, perished needy and alone on January 28, 1960, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce,

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer” (Hurston). There are times in the year that you are trying to find yourself and other times that you can not find yourself. Zora makes women look at their environmental roles of society to see if there is a conflict with women’s self, if so take action. It is very important because if women become more aware of their role is society, they become more aware of them. As a matter of fact, if you discovered who you truly are, you are helping yourself in the long-run because being somebody else to others or to yourself is just being fake. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” (Hurston). When you find the real love in yourself that you have not let out, it makes you feel happy and free. Although Zora knows her self worth, at first she had trouble, but she found it, now she is writing about her self-definition . She wrote in her novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching Me”, that when women were placed into internal struggles, they actually found themselves and become happy with all the new information they have found out about them. In life, you do not need anyone else but you make yourself