Walkers Innovation of Zora Neal Hurston and Herself

Walker a great admirer of Zora Neal Hurstons novels, is in search for Zoras grave and wants to no more about her. From Zora's novels Walker figures that Eatonville is her home town and so she tends to go there to get more information than she already acquired from reading her novels. She meets up with a companion named Charlotte and both share their findings they obtained from her novels before the expedition. They begin by asking a women questions at the post office and tells her that she was Zora's niece. Walker believed it was the best way to get more information out of people. The women believed Mrs. Moseley remembered her and they began to question her as well. From Moseley's responses, they imbibe that she did have a funeral and where she was buried but not her exact grave. Knowing Zoras situation in not having a proper funeral, Walker considers to attach a tomb stone to her grave, feeling she had the right to do so. Moseley tells them the cause of Zoras death but only find out her true cause of death when they meet up with Dr.Benton, a great friend of Zora's. He tell them his relationship to Zora as her neighbor. He also explains her relationship with her family which was not a good one. Walker begins to feel apart of Zora since she has read her autobiography, which referred to her personality almost as if Walker knew Zora in person.

Dr. Benton also describes her physical features as being a bit chunky from eating too much. Eating too much was one of the reasons that caused her death, high blood pressure. And for not having her own family attend her funeral was depressing to Walker. This affected Walker, to know that her idol was not greatly known like she thought she would be.        
                         

Feeling the Blues

Janie gets the blues flu from the very start of her childhood, by not having her mother be there for her to watch her grow, to cherish her and love her. I believe that is the main hitch that is keeping her down. She does not know how to love and be loved. Even though her Nanny loved her with all her heart, her definition of love was different than the way Janie defines it. Nanny believed that getting married signified love. When Janie believed that love was the reason one married. Janie wanted to love and be loved but did not know exactly how it worked. This brought a great depression to her heart. Nanny advised Janie to get married to a man that would provide her with everything she needed as well as protection and love will follow. Nanny's advice was helpless. Janie was neither happy with the things he provided nor had any sorts of feelings of care towards her first husband. Joe her second husband engaged her in his sweet talk and made her believe he was different than what he really was. Once she began to notice the real side of him she realized that what she thought was love was no longer love. Her relationship with Joe was one that really brought her hopes down to finding true love.        
               

Years of Questioning, Years of Answers

When we are young we often ask questions about certain things in this world. As we get older we might not have as many questions as we did in our younger years but because throughout the years those questions get answered. But not all our questions get answered right then and there, "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." Janie too is still in that stage where questions develop from our curiosity. But will this year be the year that asks questions or one that answers them? Or will this be the year that does both? From the reading it sounds like she will have both questions and answers in the year that is to come. Janie is still too young to know things according to marriage and how it works so she tends to ask many questions. As she goes through with the marriage with Logan she develops her assumption of love and believes that she has no love for him. In this situation she asks herself many times on what her decisions will be and what is she going to do about it. She makes the decision of leaving him and going off with a man that tells her things she wants to hear but she still has that question in her mind, "Am I doing the right thing?" In this year that is to come she will have this question with her and her answer to whether it is right or not well soon follow.