Dust Tracks chp. 2

Zora's father was considered as an "over the creek nigger,"(pg.8) in other words he was a depreciation of a black man. John Hurston had to be about twenty years old and her mother, Lucy Ann Potts, fourteen years old when John and Lucy got married. No one in her family approved of him because they thought they he would attenuate the family name because of his social status. As the young couple struggled they continued to tell themselves that thing would get better. Things did get better. Her father became the Mayor of Eatonville, FL. Zora's family can be depicted as a strong family with a few flaws but always worked through the kinks. Zora and her father had their differences, but their loves was still there. Zora had tendencies similar to her mother and Sara, the older sister, like her father. Though Zora's parents had their moments of when it was hard to express their love to one another, in their hearts they knew they couldn't live with out each other. Despite of the treatment of her father towards her she knew that she had the best parents.