Zora Neale Hurston's quest for happiness outside the realm of financial success in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"Happiness

Zora Neale Hurston writes beyond her time by making Their Eyes were Watching God a book that celebrates black culture and pride. While her contemporaries were pumping out books that read like Martin Luther King Jr. speech transcripts, Hurston wrote about her heritage and her people in a way that spoke volumes about how black cultures unique. This style of writing transcended the precedent set by other writers of her time. Hurston develops character relationships …

…Hurston shows that black people naturally search for other ways to make life fulfilling. Her sentiments, although taken badly in her time, make sense today. She chose to give insight on how many black people interacted and talked to each other with Sam and Lige on the porch. She especially showcased black culture when Janie chose happiness and "summertime when times is dull" over material wealth and other things classified by Mrs. Turner as "white".