Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay

Women in society have been viewed as just objects for a long time and still to this day. The novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a feminist novel because Janie gives a voice to women and didn’t let the standard of women define her. In the novel Janie went through good times and bad times. In the beginning of the story, the readers can see how Janie was forced in a marriage with Logan Killicks. She didn’t know herself well to know then she had a voice. Being in that relationship was bad…

Throughout Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, has to deal with the gender roles and stereotypes of her time period. Throughout the novel, Janie has three key relationships that define the way women fit into the society that she lives in. While Janie learns ‘her place’ in this society, she rebels against it with each husband that she has. Hurston uses Janie as a way to oppose the gender roles of her time. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a commentary on…

Their Eyes Were Watching God is about the search for love and self, and the personal journey till the end of a womans life. The main character, Janie, goes through many different paths during her life. She marries a total of three men, and eventually finds herself. The first 16 years of her life are spent with her Nanny. These years were very important developmental years for her. She does not have her parents around, and is teased for it greatly. She originally is living in a white family's…

The search for self-identity is a topic expressed in many novels from the Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, the character of Janie Crawford from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is a character who progresses through three marriages with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Vergible Woods (also referred to as Tea Cake) throughout her life. Like all major events, Janie’s experiences in all three of her marriages allowed her to gather small components of her own identity. The final…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Janie Crawford dreamed of a love which resembled a pear tree from her childhood. The pear tree was simple, sweet, and symbolized reciprocal love. Through her journey to discover this ideal love, Janie encountered people who failed to tie her down and control her and their own fate. However, despite multiple characters attempting to control their fate, the hurricane scene reveals that none of the people had or will ever have any…

Their Eyes Were Watching God Three good qualities every guy should have are, loving, providing, and selfless. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Janie is on her life journey trying to find love. It is set in Florida in 1937. These times are different than nowadays, so that means what is expected from men is also different. Janie wants a man who is loving, providing, and selfless. She meets and marries three men, but only one of them has those…

Throughout a person life, they are constantly changing. It can either be in a positive or negative way. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God, we see the main character Jamie Crawford change throughout her marriage to Jody Sparks. She loved him, but “he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees” (29). In the beginning she is this care free happy woman and is in love. Next, we see her start to become this quiet woman who does whatever her husband says. Lastly Janie…

Samatar Yussuf AP Lit Mrs.Satterwhite 11/24/15 THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Throughout the novel Janie has been battling outside forces, whether it’s someone trying to stop her or her own demons chasing her. At the end of the novel when she confronts her beloved is when she realizes that she is stronger than she thinks. And these events that lead up to the ending is the reason why i think the novel has an appropriate ending. Janie eventually realizes that she is control of her own…

The great majority of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston revolves around Black characters in essentially all Black communities. Despite the oppression of Blacks in America continuing long into the 20th century, Janie’s oppression is hardly on the grounds of her race. Though race is a central basis of the novel, Janie is often mistreated and oppressed due to her gender, not her race. The majority of Black Americans in the early 1900’s yearned for civil rights above all else,…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, we follow our protagonist, Janie Crawford, through a journey of self-discovery. We watch Janie from when she was a child to her adulthood, slowly seeing her ideas change while other dreams of hers unfortunately die. This is illustrated by the quote: “She knew that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.” This realization made by Janie supports one of the biggest themes in this novel, which…