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"Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Invisible Man"

     While reading Their Eyes Were Watching God  for this class, I kept thinking about how different it was from the two previous books we read: Invisible Man  and Native Son.  The setting, narrative style, and general tone of Hurston's novel is entirely distinctive (and I really enjoyed reading the book because of that). Looking back, however, I find the echoes of Their Eyes Were Watching God  in Invisible Man  more and more. I'd like to discuss the similarities and differences in this blog post.      To start off, they are both frame narratives told by the main character of the story. That frame impacts how the reader sees the story in both books, but there are many differences in how the frame changes the narrative. In Invisible Man,  the narrator is clearly talking about the process of writing, which is connected closely to his character. This established him as the narrator, and we have referred to him as such throughout out discussion of the book. However, in Hurston'