Like her immediate predecessors, Zora Neale Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks, she focused her novel on an ordinary Black woman's search for identity within the context of a Black community.

就像她的前辈佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿和格温德林·布鲁克斯一样，她把小说的重点放在一个普通的黑人女性在黑人社区的背景下寻找身份。

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Zora's mother died in nineteen-oh-four, when Zora was thirteen years old.

卓拉的母亲于1904年去逝，那时她还只有十三岁。

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Zora was twenty-six years old when she began high school. But she said she was only sixteen.

当卓拉上高中时，她已经二十六岁了，但她说她只有十六岁。

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Zora was born at a time of racial tensions between blacks and whites in the southern United States.

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Zora Neale Hurston was known for her ability to tell a story.

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In 1975, writer Alice Walker wrote an essay about her search for Zora Neale Hurston.

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Ferrell and Zora, for instance, are stationed at the patrol base Barioli, an isolated outpost in a dry sea of Taliban territory.

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But when Zora signals that she has detected explosives in a locked chest in one villager's house, there are grim faces all around and time stands still for us too.

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