Summary Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

The early nineteenth hundred was an important period for African Americans. During this time period, there was a lot of turbulence for race relations and gender role. Zora Neale Hurston was a writer who grew up during this time period and went threw a series of events prior to writing the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. At an early age Hurston’s mother passed away and her father went off to remarry but continued to pay for her education till he eventually stopped. For a bit of time she became a maid for an actress in a touring Gilbert and Sullivan group. Soon after this episode, Hurston enrolled into Howard University and later transferred to Barnard College to graduate from there in 1928. A major part of her life was when she contributed to the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes. The Harlem Renaissance flourished and was dominated by social realism that brought cultural openness. …show more content…
She demonstrates that slavery might be going away, but the lives of African Americans still remained difficult. The abolishment of slavery arose racial tension for African Americans not only from whites, but as well as amongst themselves. Hurston expresses the way freedom to a women was different to freedom of a man. Throughout the novel you notice the way the main character of Janie is expected to behave and is judged for certain actions that she takes instead. She goes through a series of relationship which do not end happily because of her unexpected behavior as a