Walkers Discoveries Of Zora and Herself

Walker, the narrator of the story, is a fan of Zora Neale Hurston. She knows a lot about her and decides to visit Eatonville; the town Zora grew up in. She meets locals who new about Zora personally. This causes Walker to find out more about Zora then she previously did, such as how she died, which at first she had not known, then she was told she was told Zora died of malnutrition, which causes Walker to become upset. Especially since she was a famous writer, who becomes hungry despite of her life accomplishments and work. She is then told Zora died of a stroke, which made more sense to Walker, since dying out of old age is natural. Walker also finds out Zora began to become bigger as she grew older, which shocks Zora since she has only seen Zora skinny in pictures. She also interprets that Zora didn't get along with her family and a lot of the public for the reason her opinions and views on certain subjects. She also found out for this reason she was forgotten and not even known by the community much. I believe this reveals to Walker that her culture of her race is not as full of pride or as great as she thought since not much African Americans even now about one of their most famous writers. This affects her as an individual for it shows her most favorite author of whom she saw and an idol and as someone she thought her self as, and to know she was not as great and known as she thought to be, which shocks her as well to letting her down.