<em>"John Redding Goes to Sea" </em>is a short story written by the American author Zora Neale Hurston and published in 1921. In the story, the protagonist John Redding is an ambitious dreamer who wants to leave his hometown to explore the unknown but many events stop him to fulfill his dream.
The statement that best supports the idea that the author was an independent woman who longed to escap her small hometown is the following:
<em> "Pa, when ah gets as big as you Ah'm goin' farther than them ships. Ah'm goin' to where the sky touches the ground."</em>
Personification because she is comparing herself to the world.
