Introduction Zora Neale Hurston was a prideful person with undeceive beliefs for her era. Grew up in a black town with an assertive family, she had a fierce sense of self that she carried with her all her life, even in the face of racism and criticism by African Americans for pandering to whites. Living in the era of the Harlem Renaissance where African American’s expressions towards cultural beliefs which affected by the Great Migration, Hurston was greatly influenced by the new ideas. Through her short story “Spunk," Zora Neale Hurston successfully revealed her discouragement towards Spunk and his inappropriate actions to marry Lena (a married woman) which employs many of her disbeliefs and disagreements towards inequality of any kind. Hurston’s background tremendously affected her writings by their styles, dialogues and scenarios. By using imagery and the themes of betrayal, Hurston successfully portrayed her view towards her own society. Subtopic One - How did Hurston’s background influenced her writing? Grew up in such a prideful family, Hurston believed in speaking up for herself and expressing her beliefs and disbeliefs however she wanted. She would always go out of her way to achieve what she desires. After Hurston’s mother died, “Hurston was sent away to Jacksonville, which she experienced a new view towards racism. When her father remarried, she came back to Eatonville, where she almost killed her stepmother in a violent fist fight” (Trubek). Before her stepmother, Hurston received many supports from her mother in everything she does and wants to do. As her stepmother came into her life, everything changed; “Hurston had to deal with bitter treatments from her stepmom and eventually was driven away from home along with her other siblings” (Strong). Her action reveals to the critics of her bitter belief, that nobody should remarry. This idea was reflected in her short story “Spunk”, whereas Spunk tried to marry Lena, which was already married to Joe. Hurston satires the idea of second marriage and maybe worse - adultery, by showing the readers the outcome of this situation, where both men had died over an unfaithful woman. Hurston exaggerated the outcome in her novel to express her disagreement with her father’s action where she had no rights to interfere as a young teenage girl. Zora Neale Hurston’s style of writing was greatly influenced by where she was born. “Eatonville, the town of Florida, once was intersected by the dirt road, was the childhood home of Zora, an anthropologist, writer and Harlem Renaissance troubadour” (Graham). Hurston uses different type of dialects in almost all her writings, including “Spunk”. The language and the dialect in the short story were originally from a rural town in Florida, which was where Hurston was born. By doi