Walker goes on a journey to Zora Neale Hurston's hometown, Eatonville. She is on a journey to find out who her aunt really was, and how she influenced the town she once grew up in. Walker does find a lot about who she, not only as a person, but as a woman of her own culture.
Walker discovers that her aunt was not very well known amongst some of the people in town. She goes all around town to find answers. She discovers, from the lady that directed Zora's funeral, the location of her grave site. Once she arrives, she is astonished on how the look of her grave site it. It is just left to be tarnished. She also discovers that her aunt did not die from malnutrition, but from a stroke. She finds this out from Zora's doctor.
By Walker being on the search for her aunt's past, she sees that she was part of an amazing ladies life. She sees that Zora had to grow up before her time, and so does she.
How do you think Walker and Zora lived a similar life?
ReplyDelete@Crystal I believe the way they were similar was they were both adventurous. Zora, with her sense of writing and Walker just being adventurous and digging into the past to recover things that no one else cared to know.
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