The Search for Zora

Searching for Zora Neale Hurston had left many unanswered questions that required Walker and Charrolate to go to Eatonville and find their answers. Whenever Walker had found a clue about her beloved hero, she followed it to the very end, and for the most part it left her assuming  the worst had happened to Zora. Like when she went to the funeral home and they said that she died of malnutrition, it had almost crushed our detectives. So it wasn't until the end of her search that she found what had really happened to her inspiration and was able to clear everything up.

While Walker is searching for the unanswered questions of how Zora Neale Hurston came to be in an unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere, she realizes some things about herself. She sort of feels that like reading through all of Zora's books and history, she felt like she knew her. Even at one point in her search she states that she even believed the lie that she was saying about how she was Zora's niece. It's through all this that she realizes that she can be as strong and can be as amazing and intelligent as her inspiration. It lets her know that it doesn't matter where she's from, she can make something out of herself. 

Poem of a Mad Black Women

Us women may love with our hearts
but first everyone lusts with their eyes.
Everyone, consists of men being men.
They tell us what we want to hear to sway our over-whelmed loving minds.
We have dreams of peace and harmony for our entire marrige
Then the harsh reality of life comes and shows us the translucent light
that is the failing of our love.

What The Future Contains For Our Janie

The upcoming year will be a year that will not only answer many questions for her, but will ask questions as well. When she goes off with Joe Stark her questions of how love should be get answered in the best way she can believe. He is loving of her, wants to treat her right, and do everything he is suppose to. The year answers what she desires most and how that makes her feel.
The upcoming year would also ask questions because what about what Nanny said? She doesn't just forget about what her Grandma told her about love,  so she still questions that about Jody. Also if her choice to go with Jody was a good idea because she doesn't know what that year will have for her.