Magnolia Flower Zora Neale Hurston. The River and the Brook Magnolia Flower. Zora Neale Hurston in this story raises a question about slavery.
Short Stories Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis character list theme list historical context author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Two of the most unusual characters in the body of work Hurston produced are the dual tellers of this love story between John and Magnolia Flower. Bentley worked for white people and hated them.
The River and the Brook Magnolia Flower.
Just one of six insightful tragic yet sometimes even laugh-out-loud funny stories that Betye Saar chose to illustrate with six glowing multi-colored serigraphs of incredible depth and power. Magnolia Flower is a spooky fable with a sweet ending. This story shows the creativity of Hurston and her knowledge of folklore where animals and things were given human voices and personalities. The fact is that Hurston was not a particularly deep writer either in terms of ideation or in terms of execution.