audiences. It cannot be denied that her work becoming a classroom favorite shows the respect due to her literature’s exploration of universal themes with obvious philosophical and social significance.Hurston’s view of individuals at all levels of society allowed various audiences to relate to her literature. Her work is powerful because it works to bring about social change through learning and understanding. She does not focus on one specific group of people. For example, Her education allowed her to go beyond boundaries and relate to everyone, despite their differences, as human beings. Hurston’s preoccupation with protesting societal inequalities and admonished to preserve the traditions of African Americans suggests she wrote for culturally different audiences. Hurston has been severely criticized for not making race and the plight of blacks more centralized in her work. Yet she writes almost exclusively about blacks. Hurston personally progressed beyond bitterness, as seems clear from the last line of her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road: “I have no race prejudice of any kind. My kinfolks, and my ‘skin folks’ are dearly loved…But I see their same virtues and vices everywhere I look. So I give you all my right hand of fellowship and love, and hope for the same from you. In my eyesight, you lose nothing by not looking just like me.” Through her works, she affirms blackness, while not denying Jenkins 3whiteness in a black-denying society. She does this by presenting characters that are realistically human. Despite the fact that Hurston tended to be “politically incorrect” and her work fell out of print in the 1960’s and 1970’s, it must be noted that she articulated issues that were on society’s mind. She voiced the opinions that too many people were afraid to let be heard. She wrote with such knowledge, eloquence, and human emotion that ...
