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Okay, quick disclaimer. Before I get into it.
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Airpods to video delay slightly there.
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Hopefully that doesn't disrupt the video too much.
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But the author that I chose to do for this was Zora Neale hurston.
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We read her essay how it feels to be colored me at the beginning of the year.
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And I really liked that s a want to learn a little bit more about her.
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So she was born on January 7, 1891, uh in
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in Alabama
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And she moved to Florida three years after, so she was three years old when she moved.
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She died January 28, 1960
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At the age of 69.
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So she was an american author, anthropologist and filmmaker
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she wrote during the Harlem renaissance and she
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portrayed the racial struggles of the time.
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She wrote four novels and more than 50 short stories, plays and essays.
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The most popular of her novels being their eyes were watching God,
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which was poorly received at first.
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And the novel explores the main character, jenny Crawford's
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ripening from a vibrant but voiceless teenage girl into a woman
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with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny.
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So, I'm going to show two quotes because the first one
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I chose choose the addiction used
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when
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characters are talking. I presume I don't have the context of the quote.
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But
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The 2nd 1 is then showing like the message kind of
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like just some of the messages that are shown throughout the book.
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Okay, so first quote,
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two things everybody has got to do for themselves. They got to go to God and they got
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to find out about living for themselves.
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So, as you can see, this obviously has an interesting diction.
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Mm hmm.
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And then
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the second quote,
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there is a basin in the mind where words float
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about on thought and thought on sound and sight.
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Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words and
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deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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So this quote shows repetition.
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And it also shows like the deeper meaning in throughout the novel
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about like religion and how it affects people.
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Um
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Thank you. I hope you learned a bit more about Sora.