The main purpose of the Mounds was burial: the Mounds were a burial site for some distinguished people, such as kings. Other possible purpose was for ceremonies (ceremonies performed on top of the mound).
It seems like the question is asking introduction of the two books, which is as below;
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 narrative and the best known work by African-American essayist Zora Neale Hurston. The novel describes principle character Janie Crawford's aging from an energetic, however voiceless, adolescent young lady into a lady with her finger on her fate.
The second book How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster that was printed in 2003. The creator proposes understandings of topics, ideas, and conceivable images usually found in writing.
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The Southwest Asia, also known as Middle East, is divided among 15 countries. The countries outside of the Mesopotamia region and the Persian Golf are the poorest in oil, being Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey and Cyprus, while the Gulf and KSA have the majority of the oil deposits.
