Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston: Summary

The book I read, which is called “THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD” by Zora Neale Hurston is one of the best books I have ever read. The story is set in southern United States, during the early twentieth century when racism, freedom, and sexism were major struggles that the U.S. was facing at the time. Along with that the story is mostly told through first person, but is sometimes narrated to clarify certain events considering the dialect the people of that time spoke ion. The book has a timeline of starting at the end and leading back up to it. The story starts with our main character Janie coming back from the Everglades to a town from her past called Eatonville. The local gossipers start to say what they feel about Janie but are interrupted …show more content…
The story then proceeds to describe Janie’s adolescent life without a mother and father but a grandmother that she refers to as “nanny”. Now nanny is a very interesting character because she shapes Janie to who she will try to be for most of her adolescent life which then leads to many interesting and relatable conflicts throughout the story. Furthermore “nanny” enforces Janie to marry a wealthy man in order to keep Janie from being “a mule of the world” which does not agree with some of Janie’s ideals, but she follows her grandmother's advice and marries a man named Logan Killicks who is a wealthy white man that owns a large plot of land, along with that he has shown previous interest in Janie, so in nanny’s mind this man is god sent, but Janie does not love him. So after the plot thickens and Janie breaks it off with Logan the lad she finds another man by the name of Joe starks who is a very handsome, wealthy stud. they decide to move over to a town in the making called Eatonville which Joe or in the book is referred to as Jody becomes the mayor