Week 7! Time has seriously flown by this marking period. This past week we chose a big question and then a book to answer said question. I chose Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I chose this book because the main character was a mixed woman living in the 1930s and though I'm not living in the 1930's, I am mixed and every single history class I've ever been in that taught us about African Americans, I've always wanted to know... well what about people like me? So before I started reading this book I thought it was going to be like The Color Purple which in some ways it was but once I started reading it... it kind of chased my interest away unlike Alice Walker's book did. The dialect was so strange to me, they use ah instead of I and lak instead of like and I spent the first couple of days on the first chapter trying to decipher what they were saying. I got fed up with quitting and just forced myself to focus and I found myself not able to put the book down and I ended up finishing it really quickly. It was honestly a very good book and I recommend it to anyone looking for a challenge and a good read. I hope to find more books just like this, and I am determined to read them and analyze them thoroughly the way in which I did with this book. The next two books I want to read are Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright.
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