African American people were expected to convey the overview of the injustices of other African Americans during the 1930’s. Zora Neale Hurston is often criticized in her work because of her novels such as, Their Eyes were Watching God, she disturbs the perpetual pattern of black literature being about the discrimination of blacks, and that was the norm of African American literature. Despite the norms of society, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Critics such as Richard Wright believe that bodies of work not universally revolved around black injustice, such as Hurston’s novel, are not to be taken serious; while other critics such as Henry Louis Gates believes that it is beneficial to step outside of what is expected and write about
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It was never decided they never had to be based off of one or the other, so it 's unfair to say a novel should be strictly about race or love.Marriage is one of the most looked for two things of that time and “Janie felt glad of thought, for it wouldn 't seem so destructive and mouldy”, she “wouldn 't be alone anymore”(21). Jaine assumes that 's because she is married, love and happiness magically appear and she eventually that marriage does not guarantee those things. Love makes for a great theme in any novel. Just because the theme is love filled, the elements of racism and discrimination still . IN a flashback of nanny’s she was asked “whuts yo baby doin wid gray eyes and yaller hair” and because of those she features on her baby she was physically and emotionally abused with whips and threats: “she being tuh slap (her) jaws ever which away” and promised her “One hundred lashes wid a rawhide on (her) bare back” (66). To white women, it was a acrid feeling to know their husband slept with a slave women. This is because it indicated that black women could uphold some beauty. The issue of black oppression and the positive side of African-Americans were both Incorporated in Hurston 's novel which makes it
It was never decided they never had to be based off of one or the other, so it 's unfair to say a novel should be strictly about race or love.Marriage is one of the most looked for two things of that time and “Janie felt glad of thought, for it wouldn 't seem so destructive and mouldy”, she “wouldn 't be alone anymore”(21). Jaine assumes that 's because she is married, love and happiness magically appear and she eventually that marriage does not guarantee those things. Love makes for a great theme in any novel. Just because the theme is love filled, the elements of racism and discrimination still . IN a flashback of nanny’s she was asked “whuts yo baby doin wid gray eyes and yaller hair” and because of those she features on her baby she was physically and emotionally abused with whips and threats: “she being tuh slap (her) jaws ever which away” and promised her “One hundred lashes wid a rawhide on (her) bare back” (66). To white women, it was a acrid feeling to know their husband slept with a slave women. This is because it indicated that black women could uphold some beauty. The issue of black oppression and the positive side of African-Americans were both Incorporated in Hurston 's novel which makes it