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Their eyes were watching God [kit]
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960.

Publisher:	Lippincott,
Pub date:	c1937, 1965.
Pages:	10 copies in plastic container +
ISBN:	0060916508
Item info:	No copies currently available. 10 copies total in all locations.

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CHANTILLY REGIONAL	Copies	Material	Location
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Summary

Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Table of Contents

Context	1
Plot Overview	5
Character List	7
Analysis of Major Characters	11
Janie	11
Tea Cake	12
Jody Starks	13
Themes, Motifs & Symbols	15
Language: Speech and Silence	15
Power and Conquest as Means to Fulfillment	16
Love and Relationships Versus Independence	16
Community	17
Race and Racism	17
The Folklore Quality of Religion	18
Hair	19
The Pear Tree and the Horizon	19
The Hurricane	19
Summary & Analysis	21
Chapters 1-2	21
Chapters 3-4	24
Chapter 5	26
Chapter 6	29
Chapters 7-8	32
Chapters 9-10	35
Chapters 11-12	37
Chapters 13-14	40
Chapters 15-16	43
Chapters 17-18	46
Chapter 19	49
Chapter 20	51
Important Quotations Explained	55
Key Facts	61
Study Questions & Essay Topics	65
Study Questions	65
Suggested Essay Topics	68
Review & Resources	69
Quiz	69
Suggestions for Further Reading	74

Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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key:	00648460
ISBN:	0060916508 (pbk.)
ISBN:	0060199490 (HarperCollins hardcover ed.)
Local Dewey call num:	KIT FIC HUR
Personal Author:	Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960.
Title:	Their eyes were watching God [kit]
Edition:	Book group discussion kit
Publication info:	Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott, c1937, 1965.
Physical descrip:	10 copies in plastic container + folder of questions.
Price:	10 BK+FOLDER
General Note:	Kit intended for use by book groups.
General Note:	Books are accompanied by questions for book group discussion.
General Note:	HarperCollins reprint (2000) has a foreword by Edwidge Danticat and "Note on publication history" by Richard Wentworth.
Subject term:	African American women--Florida--Fiction.
Subject term:	African Americans--Florida--Fiction.
Subject term:	Man-woman relationships--Florida--Fiction.
Subject term:	African Americans--Race identity--Fiction.
Subject term:	Florida--History--Fiction.
Local subject:	African American fiction (Authors H)
Local subject:	Book group discussion kits (Fairfax County Public Library)
892:	lm

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