Moses, Man Of The Mountain By Zora Neate Hurston

In the novel Moses, Man of the Mountain, written by Zora Neate Hurston, Moses sees his first mountain in chapter eleven, which greatly affects his life. The mountain shows a new world where Moses can start his life over and leave his Egyptian past behind. The mountain has an important significance, because the mountain is included in the title; therefore, the reader will expect an important event to happen referencing the mountain. Moses is running away from his past and his problems, he is seeking an escape. The mountain may be his chance to experience a new life and live surrounded by natures beauty and to him “it seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful” (79). He would be grateful towards this mountain and all that it offers, because he is the opposite of ungrateful, as readers see when he stands up for the Hebrews. Moses would care for the mountain and its surroundings like he did for the Hebrews. …show more content…
He was a changed man with new experiences to come, one of these would be the introduction to the mountain. When Moses first sees the mountain, he describes how “it made him feel as if he had been lacking something vital to life all along” (84). He sees a chance for a new start somewhere beautiful and somewhere that makes him feel as though he is alive for a reason. The author describes the mountain as if it were a king or a queen by stating that the mountain was “lifting its rocky crown above the world” (84). The mountain is a leader for Moses. The mountain will guide Moses in the right