Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston. This paper gives examples of how she is a modernistand how she is part of the Harlem Renaissance period.

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Zora Hurston had a very interesting and unique style of writing. Her style of writing was called "vernacular". Which means that she wrote how people spoke, not how words were supposed to be spelled. Hurston based most of her writing on folklore. In her story Their Eyes Were Watching God, there are many examples of her being a modernist. Hurston is part of the Harlem Renaissance period, she writes how truth arises out of circumstances, …

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…over Logan Killicks, Nanny said something by way of an explanation of why Janie needs to marry up the social ladder that revealed a good deal about the reality of being an African-American woman. She says "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see". Janie, out of respect for her grandmother, went off to start her role as a wife. To me, this is an example of doubt.