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        <title><![CDATA[This story was written by Ms. Hurston in 1933.  During this time she...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This story was written by Ms. Hurston in 1933.  During this time she was going through a rough patch with her husband who she later divorced. She had three marriages over all. 
One of the reasons she wrote this love story about Joe and Missie Banks was to relate, to the reader, the good things, and the bad, of marriage in general and themes speific to African American couples.  The desire to show the reader what is important in a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:09:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Missie May and Joe Banks were a happily married couple until the arrival...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Missie May and Joe Banks were a happily married couple until the arrival of Otis D. Slemmons.  Mr. Slemmons opens an ice cream parlor in their town and Joe takes Missie out for to visit the new establishment.   Missie and Joe both are aware of the “richness” that this newcomer displays.  He has a mouth full of gold teeth and he wears a gold coins as jewelry; a stick- pin and on his watch.  Joe feels insecure because he can’t see...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:48:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Zora Neale Hurston call this story "The Gilded Six-Bits?"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Zora Neale Hurston call this story "The Gilded Six-Bits?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:00:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What seems to be the author's purpose for writing "The Gilded Six-Bits"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What seems to be the author's purpose for writing "The Gilded Six-Bits"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:25:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is symbolic about Joe Lindsay, Jim Merchant, Walter Thomas, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is symbolic about Joe Lindsay, Jim Merchant, Walter Thomas, and Moss' names in The Gilded Six Bits?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 16:08:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The most obvious theme in Zora Neale Hurston's The Gilded Six Bits can...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The most obvious theme in Zora Neale Hurston's The Gilded Six Bits can only be appreciated when one remembers the context in which the story was written. Remember that Hurston was raised in a black township like the one she describes in the story and that her academic training was in anthropology. One of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, she was actively engaged in both recovering and reappropriating the African-American...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:21:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You can get a lot of good ideas for thesis statements by visiting the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can get a lot of good ideas for thesis statements by visiting the &quot;Themes&quot; link to Hurston's story (below).  One I can offer you, however, (and is discussed in the &quot;Themes&quot; page) is to consider the differences between appearance and reality.  You might want to go with something as straight-forward as &quot;The old adage &quot;all that glitters is not gold&quot; is certainly true in Zora Neale Hurston's story of two...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:19:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is a possible thesis statement for the story The Gilded Six-Bits?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is a possible thesis statement for the story The Gilded Six-Bits?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:15:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The core theme is that all that glitters is not gold (literally), which...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The core theme is that all that glitters is not gold (literally), which is to say, you can't go by surface appearances, but must look deeper to find real value.

This is communicated through the gap between Otis's appearance and his character, through the six-bits itself, and through love that is not so impressive on the surface finding a way in the end.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:57:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the theme of &quot;The Gilded Six Bits&quot; and how is that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the theme of &quot;The Gilded Six Bits&quot; and how is that theme communicated?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:46:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The first way the gilded half-dollar is symbolic is that it appears to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first way the gilded half-dollar is symbolic is that it appears to be real and impressive, like the flashy Otis D. Slemmons.

If you took false gold for real, it could ruin you, just as it nearly ruined the couple when Missie May accepted Slemmons.

Joe tries to make his body look like Slemmons', because he's taken the appearance for real too.

Slemmons didn't allow anyone to touch his gold because he knew it was fake, just as he was fake...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:38:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can you discuss the symbolism of the gilded half-dollar?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How can you discuss the symbolism of the gilded half-dollar?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:26:22 PST</pubDate>
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