Zora Hurston had a very interesting and unique style of writing. Her style of writing was called "vernacular". Which means that she wrote how people spoke, not how words were supposed to be spelled. Hurston based most of her writing on folklore. In her story Their Eyes Were Watching God, there are many examples of her being a modernist. Hurston is part of the Harlem Renaissance period, she writes how truth arises out of circumstances, she also writes about disillusionment and doubt.
The Harlem Renaissance took place between the years of 1916 and 1940. During this time there occurred to be an artistic and intellectual revolution in "Back America". It said to be driven by political and economic circumstances in the United States. That what the Harlem Renaissance was based on many influential blacks showing their talents and speaking out about how they feel.
Janie, the main character in the book, was raised by her grandmother.
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Zora Neale Hurston Photographer: Carl Van Vechten....Ever since Janie's mother ran away it was just the two of them living together. As a kid Janie lived in the house where her grandmother was a nanny for a white family. She was treated the same as the white children, they ate together, played together, even got punished together. Janie, unlike most of the blacks at that time, did not see any discrimination while she was growing up. That was the building block of her strong personality. There was some teasing in school about her living in a white folks home, but she did not pay much attention to that. Since she was raised in a household of white children, Janie didn't realize that she was different until she saw a photograph of everyone together. "Aw, aw! Ah'm colored." Janie said, when she understood that she was the dark one.