"John Redding Goes to Sea" marked Zora Neale Hurston's start as a writer from Eatonville. The "lying session" on the front porch of Joe Clarke's store in Eatonville is one of Hurston's most important experiences. Just like John Redding and Isis, Hurston leaves the limited, small world of Eatonvile for the north, where she enjoys the brightness of the big cities. Even in the north, however, she does not forget what Eatonville gave her. In fact, she brings Eatonville to life her short fiction, and then in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God. In these works she describes the everyday lives of Black people in their own words, which, she believes, can best represent Blacks' authenticity. For that reason she does not describe Black-white conflict, or put white characters at the center of her works. But in Moses, Man of the Mountain she leaves Eatonville for Egypt, and describes Moses, Hebrews, and Egyptians instead of Black people. How does she try to express the spirit of Eatonville in this new world?