Spunk by zora hurston

During and after World War 1 thousands of African Americans began migrating from the South. Many moved to the North in hoping for a better life and better jobs. By 1923 the population of Blacks in New York had tripled. Two-thirds of the blacks settled in Harlem, which was distinctively black. In 1917 there was an intellectual movement in Harlem known the Harlem Renaissance. It lasted to about 1935. Harlem became a vibrant center of black cultural activity in the 1920’s. It gave birth to many musicians, artists, and many writers. A popular musical called Runnin’ Wild sparked a new dance craze called the Charleston. The Cotton Club featured musician such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith. But above all the Harlem Renaissance was literary movement. It introduced such writers as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote Spunk.

Sweat is a short story writing by Hurston during the Harlem renaissance. Sweat shows the treatment of women by men in the early nineteenth century. Delia Jones was

a dedicated and loving wife. She worked hard all week to support her and her husband Skyes. Unfortunately, her husband did not do the same. He not attracted to her at all. When she was younger she was a beautiful woman,

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Written in 1926, the deep south of America was a place of racial division and gross inequality. Many of them spoke this way because they knew no better.

Zora Hurston dialogue has a huge impact on her writing. His other woman wants him to get rid of Delia so they can move in the house together. In a way I admire her because she had the strength to go on. Hurston demonstrates how slang was use in New York. It was a time when black men were regularly sentenced to death

for crimes against white people, but left to provide their own justice within the black community. This setting was prefect because in the twenties this treatment was accepted. Delia is one the strongest women that I have ever encounter in a book.

Sweat takes place in Eatonville, Florida some time during the 1920’s. She provided women another way to fight against abuse. He finds one and begins to parade around town with her. No one can give one a better image than someone who was there.

Approximate Word count = 1021
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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