Janie Crawford's Themes In Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God is story that follows Janie Crawford, a confident, and an attractive young black women that returns to her hometown Eatonville in Florida after being gone for 2 years. Janie comes from a mixed black and white heritage around the turn of the century. As a young girl, Janie adventure in finding true love and becoming obsessed with finding the love of her life is initiated when Janie sees a bee pollinating a flower in her backyard pear tree. After that, Janie’s perception completely changes the movie captures Janie’s adulthood and her emotional growth through three different marriages. In the movie, Janie was raised by her grandmother Nanny because her mother had ran off and left her by herself. Nanny loves and cares a lot about Janie and is loyal to her however, Nanny being a slave throughout her life and having knowledge with Janie’s mother Nanny has already created her own viewpoint of marriage. Nanny main goal was to marry Janie off to a husband that can provide Janie protection, love, and improve her social status.
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The film did a great job of using men like Joe as a husband by showing how men like him in the 1930’s and men in today’s world felt the typical role of a women was to be obedient and be object of the male possession. However, the film at the end illustrates how significant it is for a women to refuse to be silenced anymore by a men and be treated as equally as the men (Black). Furthermore, the film does a great job of showing that God does speak to both men and women equally as soon as Janie learns that how strong and capable she is she realized that she is ready to fight for equality and life freedom just like many women fighting for freedom and equality