Monday, December 17, 2012

The Relentless Search for Zora Neale Hurston

Walker and her companion Charlotte were sending each other letters talking about the different finding that they had found dealing with Zora. They went on a search a worked together to piece together information pertaining to Zora. Walker pretends to be Zora's niece in order to gain information from the lady at the funeral home. The lady points her n the direction of where she believes Hurston is buried. They go searching though what seems like a wilderness covered in weeds and flowers and eventually Walker falls into a sink hole which they believe is to be Hurston's grave. They then go and buy her a tombstone and get her name engraved on it and leave to go talk to a friend of Zora's who tells her how she died and where she lived.  After they go and see where they live walker talks about her life and how it pained her to look at such an amazing persons grave and not understand how someone could let it be in such a barren wasteland with no one there to help keep it in decent shape.

2 comments:

  1. Very well written, and I pretty much have the same thing you put, so I can't say anything that's wrong with this

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  2. I believe she says she is Zora's niece from the beginning at the post office but other than that you have a well written blog(:

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