Zora Neale Hurston was one of the many forerunners in the Harlem Renaissance movement. She was born humbly in Alabama, and, as she grew, so did her writing skills. Over the course of her life, she wrote and published seven books, in addition to many short stories, magazine articles, and even plays. One of her most famous books was Their Eyes Were Watching God, a story about a woman named Janie, from her first steps to her last marriage and the tragic end that followed. Janie has had a hard life, but with the help of her friends and people who are like family to her, she gets through it. As readers, we will get to see just how hard she had to work to obtain her dreams in the end, and even how her dreams changed through the years. Though not popular when it was first published, Zora Neale Hurston's novel spoke to many people, and even today it was popular enough to be made into a movie. Just by us reading this novel in English class, we are demonstrating that words really did make Zora Neale Hurtson immortal.
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