Influences Exerted by Guardians

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This paper discusses and compares two books, focusing on the influence exerted by the guardian. The paper examines the influence exerted by the mentor in the character, Janie, from "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston and in an unnamed high school boy, from "Battle Royal," by Ralph Ellison. The similarities between each character's trials and tribulations are presented.

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"The role a guardian can play, especially in the early stages of a child's upbringing usually carries on through their later stages of life. The influence exerted by the mentor is seen in the characters, Janie from, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston and in an unnamed high school boy from, "Battle Royal," by Ralph Ellison. Zora Neale Hurston was "born on 7 January in Eatonville, Florida, to John Hurston and Lucy Ann Potts Hurston she was the fifth of eight children." (Harris, 51). Eatonville is also the town that Hurston's character, Janie, spends most of her life in. Hurston's writing style incorporates "a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature." (Kawash, 172)."

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