Mules and Men | Part I, Introduction & Chapter One: Summary and Analysis

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Zora Hurston: a student who returns to her hometown, Eatonville, in order to collect folktales.

George Thomas, Jack and Charlie Jones, Gene Brazzle, B. (James) Moseley, and “Seaboard”: a group of cardplayers who are the first to greet Zora when she arrives in Eatonville.

Hiram Lester: the mayor of Eatonville.

Ellis and Armetta Jones: a couple who lives in Eatonville. Armetta is Zora’s childhood friend.

Summary
Zora Hurston is a folklore student in New York who is chosen to do some field research aimed at the collection of African-American...

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