Oneself needs to go there to know there. To achieve something or avoid something one needs to experience it. Our life is full of small, enormous, sad and happy moments; each event has a different impact and different purpose in our life. We discover many new things throughout these small moments. Janie realized true meaning of life and love through her journey to freedom. In the book Their eyes were watching God, Zora Neale Hurston utilizes Janie’s awakenings by different literary devices like simile, metaphor and personification to portrait excitement and suspense. Janie discovers her first internal awakening when she was sitting under the pear tree. Hurston depicts Janie’s exciting experience through the use of personification and syntax.
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Hurston utilizes Janie’s awakenings by using metaphor and simile. After Jody’s death, Janie decides live alone in the house. She realized how she was tied in her grandmother’s type of lifestyle. She understands that she had been living under others and never enjoyed her freedom.“Digging inside of herself”( Hurston 85) she found that she had no interest in her mother’s and grandmother’s life. Hurston used the word “digging” to strengthen the sentence. “Digging” portraits the deep meaning of the sentence, this typical word convinces readers to believe and experience Janie’s feelings. This conveys that Janie faced a lot of obstacles in her life and she has many emotions going in her heart. She thinks Nanny had taken a biggest thing God ever made, “the Horizon.” The metaphors convinces the reader to pause and analyze the comparison made by author; how she used the different imagery language for the specific moment. janie describes her nanny, who just cares about security and protection rather than love. Janie thinks about nanny that “she had been whipped like a cur dog” (Hurson 85), who would run after the material things in the life. Hurston compares Janie with a whipped dog who is running after material things in this world. Nanny caused Janie to sacrifice the love she dreamed of. At this moment, Janie’s self discovery made her to stay alone for some time and start a new
Hurston utilizes Janie’s awakenings by using metaphor and simile. After Jody’s death, Janie decides live alone in the house. She realized how she was tied in her grandmother’s type of lifestyle. She understands that she had been living under others and never enjoyed her freedom.“Digging inside of herself”( Hurston 85) she found that she had no interest in her mother’s and grandmother’s life. Hurston used the word “digging” to strengthen the sentence. “Digging” portraits the deep meaning of the sentence, this typical word convinces readers to believe and experience Janie’s feelings. This conveys that Janie faced a lot of obstacles in her life and she has many emotions going in her heart. She thinks Nanny had taken a biggest thing God ever made, “the Horizon.” The metaphors convinces the reader to pause and analyze the comparison made by author; how she used the different imagery language for the specific moment. janie describes her nanny, who just cares about security and protection rather than love. Janie thinks about nanny that “she had been whipped like a cur dog” (Hurson 85), who would run after the material things in the life. Hurston compares Janie with a whipped dog who is running after material things in this world. Nanny caused Janie to sacrifice the love she dreamed of. At this moment, Janie’s self discovery made her to stay alone for some time and start a new