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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

     Zora Neale Hurston was a phenomenal woman.  At the height of her success she was known as the “Queen of the Harlem Renaissance.”  She came to overcome obstacles that were placed in front of her.  Hurston rose from poverty to fame and lost it all at the time of her death.  Zora had an unusual life; she was a child that was forced to grow up to fast. But despite Zora Neale Hurston’s unsettled life, she managed to surmount every obstacle to become one of the most profound authors of the century.
     Zora Neale Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida, the fifth of eight children to Reverend John Hurston and Lucy Potts Hurston.  Zora was extraordinary person.  When her mother died she was able to stay strong. Her father, didn’t have enough love in his heart to hold on to his daughter, she was casted out of the house by her estranged father; in addition, to being neglected Hurston, dealt with the periodic moving, against society expectations Hurston survived her harsh childhood.
     At the age of thirteen, Zora Neal Hurston’s life came to a halt. The woman who she would look to for understanding, support, protection and encouragement, her mother, died.  From that point she had no direction in her life.  She started

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writing just to keep herself from emotional and physical loneness. Hurston was devastated by the death of her mother (Howard 3).
After the death of Zora’s mother, Hurston was sent to Jacksonville to go to
school. Two months after school started Zora received news that her father had remarried.  Zora’s father was never close to her, nevertheless she would come to respect and admire him.  In her eyes, Hurston saw her father as a remarkable man who had beaten tough odds to make something of himself. Zora was never to return home from school; unfortunately she didn’t have a choice, since the school would not adopt her, as her father wanted them to.  “Without Lucy Hurston to spur him on, he seemed content with what he had already accomplished, not only unwilling to assume new responsibilities but eager to lighten the load” (Witcover 35).  With the little interest that the new Ms. Hurston took in the ambition of her husband or his children Zora Neale Hurston left home never to return.
Zora found herself being passed from relative to relative. For the first time in her life she learned what poverty was like, how people “could be slave ships in shoes” (Hemenway 17). The constant relocation prompted Zora to go to work. Most of the jobs Hurston landed as maids and waitresses didn’t last long, due to her independent attitude.  Hurston spent the next five years wandering from one job to another, living from hand to mouth, never able to afford new clothes or, even worse, books.  Hurston, finally found a break when she became a wardrobe girl in the Gilbert and Sullivan theatrical troop.  For eighteen months, she traveled with them feeling like a part of their family.  With the assistance of one of the actresses, Zora
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entered Morgan Academy in Baltimore, MD (The high school division of what is now Morgan State University) in the fall of 1917(Howard 5).
For the first time in her life, Zora Neale Hurston found a sense of accomplishment. Not only did she get her high school diploma, but she also went to college.  During a time of racial oppression and Americans returning from World War I...

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