How Do You Find Your Personal Identity

Their Eyes Were Watching God
      As mentioned before I began reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, the dialogue is often difficult to read initially. I think the way Hurston writes is improper. She doesn't care about how she is writing, the way she talks or hears is what she writes. She doesn't want to take the character dialogue of place of who or where they are from. She keeps the way the characters actually talk so the reader gets a feeling of the character or the setting. It keeps the context of the novel good.

The Search for Personal Identity
      The title of Module 6 is The Search for Personal Identity. Evidence from the text, Their Eyes Were Watching God so far that fits this theme is in chapter 3 when Janie is talking to her Nanny. Janie was telling her Nanny about how she didn't want to be with her husband. The reason was not because he had done something wrong. It was that she didn't have feelings for him. This shows that she doesn't know what she wants. She thought she loved and had feelings for this man she called her husband, but she has to find what she wants.

Harlem Renaissance
      I've learned from the group presentations that the Harlem Renaissance was a focus on African American art. African Americans in Harlem, New York focused on music, poetry, African American stories. The Harlem Renaissance started after the World War I. African Americans were now free from being slaves and wanted to identify themselves. They used art to do so.

Background and Historical Context
      Our first two lessons in this module have focused greatly on understanding the author's background and the historical context. This is helping me gain deeper meaning to the text by understanding the setting. It helps put and understanding of why this or that is happening during the text. It puts a better content of the book together.

Class period on Tuesday
      We had intense class period on Tuesday, with many people sharing personal stories of events that have significantly changed their perspective of life in general. Although this was unplanned, I feel it was a good use of our time. I think because most of the people telling their stories, as you can see was keeping that all bottled in. It was a great opportunity for people to let it all out. Ms. Bianchi gave the scholars a chance to speak about it. They had a chance to let go. Mostly everyone cried and they were being comforted by other scholars. And maybe that's all what most of the scholars needed was to have a shoulder to cry on and someone to listen to them.