Realism

Brave New World takes place in the year A.F. 632 in the World State of London. Society has given up religion, science, and art to maintain peace and happiness. Mind conditioning controls the people; families exist no more, and promiscuity is a natural way of living in the consumer society. Bernard Marx is a man who questions all this on an amazingly detailed journey that will make any reader tremble. Is our society becoming the Brave New World?

Zora Neale Hurston's book blossoms with vivid imagery, characterization, and storytelling. Janie is a young black girl who has just started dreaming about romance and is hurriedly married off to a thirty-year-old man who owns land and a house but knows nothing of love. Finding her situation and newfound husband despicable, she runs away and makes better for herself, experiencing joy, sorrow, freedom, and loss. Characters and situations within THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD have been connected to actual happenings and stories of Hurston's life, making this book more than a passing fictional pleasure.