American Literature / Unit 13 AML 1219 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Their Eyes Were Watching God*
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The idea
The witness calls the novel of nineteen thirty-seven a moving depiction of a woman's maturation through three marriages, evoking Black life on the land in the rural South. Janie tells her story to a friend on a porch.
In practice
Three marriages, told on a porch.
Where people slip
The frame makes the novel a told story.
Your place on the trail
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