Moses, Man of the Mountain

Inciting Event: Pharoah’s daughter finds and adopts Moses.

First Plot Point: Moses leaves Egypt for Midian.

First Pinch Point: God commands Moses to free the Hebrews.

Midpoint: Moses demands Pharaoh let his people go.

Second Pinch Point: Pharaoh goes after the Hebrews to bring them back to slavery in Egypt.

Third Plot Point: Aaron makes a golden calf idol for the Israelites while Moses is on Mt. Sinai.

Climax: The Israelites have to wander in the desert for forty years.

Climactic Moment: The Israelites cross over the Jordan River.

Resolution: Moses fakes his death and goes home.

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In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses's life from the day he is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator. From his dramatic confrontations with Pharaoh to his fragile negotiations with the wary Hebrews, this very human story is told with great humor, passion, and psychological insight—the hallmarks of Hurston as a writer and champion of black culture.

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