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She had two brief marriages, won and lost several close friends, and feuded publicly with other prominent African-Americans. The narrator is detached, uninvolved in the action, but the men who speak have opinions about everything. The videos have changed the way I teach! Hurston rose from poverty to fame and lost it all at the time of her death. Approaching the end of the story, after the hasty wedding with Lena, Spunk becomes more and more anxious. It is also the major conflict because it ties into the biggest themes of the story of male dominance, and love and passion.

Present to your audience. The narrator is detached, uninvolved in the action, but the men who speak have opinions about everything. Joe gets angry and goes after Spunk with a blade. He leaves the store in pursuit of the couple, and the men continue to gossip. When Zora Neale Hurston was growing up in Eatonville, Florida, she was surrounded by people who did not value books as much as she did, but who carried within their heads great story collections from the African-American oral tradition. View a FREE sample. He is a small, round-shouldered man with ill-fitting clothes and a nervous disposition.

He set the bottle down upon the counter. An error occurred during processing your request. Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems, New York: By the early s, as the movement itself was waning, she had returned to Florida. More summaries and resources for teaching or studying Spunk.