Eye Were Watching God Reflection

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Based on the anticipation guide I feel as if The Eye Were Watching God will be about a lady that has made huge accomplishments that was a task of a man and people underestimated her. Some of the things such as “a women’s place is in the home” may be some of the beliefs that most men had and most of the women’s mindset that they had in that day of time. I also feel like this story will be about a testimony that she may have that she wanted to share that became very impact. I use the term testimony because it seems that she has some type of religion because she use the term “God” in her title. She also may share some of the things that she had to go through to get to the point that she is at now. I believe that if any woman has made an accomplishment

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