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Zora Neale Hurston
* This tendency toward the picaresque colors her work. Her main characters are dreamers who long for experience and spiritual freedom and want to break with the fixity of things. * Hurston's works celebrated blackness, and she became an enthusiastic contributor to the New Negro Renaissance literary movement. * "Spunk"
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Zymborska's View of History
Frances Mae Zymborska is a living American poet, who lives today in Illinois, a part of the United States located near Indiana. She moved from familiar chronicles (the wide-read sequence "The Olde House") to biography (the award-wining Kramer: His Freinds in Poems) to history in A Runoff for Cosmo
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“bartleby, the Scrivener” and “the Man I Killed”
“Bartleby, The Scrivener” and “The Man I Killed” Bartleby was a very quiet and eccentric man who was obviously disconnected from his and everyone else life. He started out as an efficient and hard working employee but soon turned into a depressed non-functioning person. At some point during his employment
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“cell one,” and “the Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Response
Characters in “Cell One,” and “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” are faced with a choice where they can choose between a seemingly happier life or a more troubling one. In “Cell One,” Nnamabia’s parents have an ethical choice presented to them when Nnamabia steals his mother’s jewelry. His
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