https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource_type/reading-group-guide/Recent content in Reading Group Guide on Zora Neale HurstonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThe Official Website of Zora Neale HurstonMon, 16 Apr 2018 22:31:22 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-group-guide-their-eyes-were-watching-god/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:31:22 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-group-guide-their-eyes-were-watching-god/Plot Summary Under “a blossoming pear tree” in West Florida, sixteen-year-old Janie Mae Crawford dreams of a world that will answer all her questions and waits “for the world to be made.” But her grandmother, who has raised her from birth, arranges Janie’s marriage to an older local farmer. So begins Janie’s journey toward herself and toward the farthest horizon open to her. Zora Neale Hurston’s classic 1937 novel follows Janie from her Nanny’s plantation shack, to Logan Killicks’s farm, to all-black Eatonville, to the Everglades, and back to Eatonville–where she gathers in “the great fish-net” of her life.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-group-guide-every-tongue-got-to-confess/Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:45:54 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/reading-group-guide-every-tongue-got-to-confess/Introduction Storytelling is an essential element of many cultures and held dear by communities whose identities have been formed in extremely difficult circumstances. This has certainly been the trajectory of the rich African-American oral tradition. Hurston’s transformation of the spoken into the written, like a lost letter from yesteryear’s speakers to today’s readers, languished undiscovered for decades. In the late 1920s, with the support of Franz Boas of Columbia University, a circle of friends that included members of the Harlem Renaissance, and a wealthy patron named Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston set out to collect the folk tales of the rural south.