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SEPTEMBER 04, 2008

Teen Blogging Zone: Discussion 6

Silence is golden

Reduced_book_cover_12 Their Eyes Were Watching God is concerned with issues of speech and how speech is both a mechanism of control and a vehicle of liberation. Yet Janie remains silent during key moments in her life. Discuss the role of silence in the book and how that role changes throughout the novel.

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