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    Zora Neale Hurston’s acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been analyzed, critiqued, and debated over for many years. The work, on a simple reading, is purely a story of a female African American’s journey and complex love life in early twentieth century America. The novel is written using the author’s own ideas and experiences: the emotions in the novel were based on the emotions Hurston felt in her own affair with a much younger man (Dubek 598). Throughout the book, the main…

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    In Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes were Watching God, the inner voices inside Janie changes her throughout her life to finally break free when she knows what she wants. This story that Janie tells her good friend Pheoby is her life story of how she transformed over her life from a woman that is silent to someone that speaks her mind as an equal. Beginning with her childhood where she was forced into a marriage being threatened and disrespected, to being silenced and put to work, and…

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    Author Zora Neale Hurston acknowledged and challenged societal expectations and standards placed on women in her works. Early in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie observes a scene on her husband’s storefront that illustrates the view of women at this point in society. She remarks “There was some more good natured laughter at the expense of women” (Hurston, 78). Janie is witness to disparagement of women by her husband and other members of the community. Her husband…

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    Janie as Feminist an Alpha Female Their Eyes Were Watching God is written by Zora Neale Hurston and published in 1937 at a period where females were not recognized for their hard work. Hurston 's novel features the first strong, independent black woman in a novel to search for her identity and happiness. It tells about a woman who acquires the power to speak, who finds her voice and so learns to tell stories and create metaphors. Although Janie is a victim again and again of male repression,…

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    Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God challenges traditional gender roles through the growth of Janie. Janie is not seen as a stereotypical woman who simply does whatever a man expects her to do. She is her own person with her own thoughts, ideas, and feelings. She comes to learn that she is a strong, independent woman who doesn’t need to care about what other people think of her. Janie does not let social prejudice or discrimination get to her, but instead learns to rise above these…

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    In the story "Their Eyes Were Watching God" written by Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston uses marriage as a character development process for her chracaters. In the story Janie Crawford,the protagonist of the story, is in her search to understand her own identity to the world, love, and her own happiness. Out of all of these things it takes the Janie three marriages to do so. In each marriage we see a strong growth in character in young Janie's life till the end, but the story also raises the question…

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    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…

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    In the novel Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston the story of a woman Janie is told from her narrative of how her self journey to happiness and mental freedom is unfolded. The main character of the novel goes through about 3 relationships with 3 different men. But these relationships can be viewed as just a women trying to find the right man and finally get love right. There’s more to these relationships and the events that take place in between all three relationships. Each and…

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    What is the significance of the title Their eyes were watching God? Their eyes were watching God is the story of Janie Crawford on a journey to finding true love. Along the way she develops her emotional growth and maturity through her different marriages. She experiences different kinds of love as well. Janie 's first marriage was with an older man who she didn 't really know and of course didn 't love. Janie 's second marriage was with Mayor Jody Starks. They marry and both work together to…

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    a personal and unique way that reflects the author. These five elements throughout the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston and Beloved written by Toni Morrison contrast each other distinctly. Diction is the literary device that gives the author the opportunity to set the pathway of word choice. Zora Neale Hurston's word choice in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is what makes this novel extremely unique. Under the vast umbrella of diction themes, Hurston chose…

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