The document discusses three lenses - historical, gender, and reader response - for analyzing Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It prompts the reader to consider Hurston's experience as a woman at the time in light of pages 89 and 133 of the novel, and discusses Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory which focuses on the reader's own interpretation from simple to complex on topical, interpretive and formal levels. Black minstrelsy is also mentioned.

1. Group 5
Kayla Alter
Mary Toth
Stephanie Finnigan
Devan Roulhac

2. lenses
1. Historical
2. Gender
3. Reader Response

3. Historical
• What is it again?
• Why is it important to look at text through this
lense?

4. Their eyes were watching
god
• What do we know
about Zora Neale
Hurston?

5. kEEP IN MIND
Do you think she had a stereotypical
experience for women at the time?

6. PAGEs 89

7. PAGE 133

8. rEADER rESPONSE
• Louise Rosenblatt
• Focuses on reader and
reader’s own meaning
• SimpleComplex
• Topical, Interpretive,
Formal

9. BLACK MINSTRELSY