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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…

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, there is mention of the horizon. Janie, the main character, is originally choked by it, after her grandmother reduces it to something infinitesimally small. After that, she is married to a series of different men. She is married to an ugly man whom she does not love, chosen by her grandmother. She is married to a rich man who she thought she loved, but he just treats her like an object. Finally, she is married to a man who truly loves…

Their Eyes were Watching God is a story about the coming of age of a young woman, particularly growing her ideas about love. This story follows the evolution of love through Janie’s three marriages. Janie’s viewpoint on love comes full circle and in the end she holds a clear idea on what it means to love. Janie comes of age during her three marriages in different ways by learning different lessons through each man. Janie's first marriage with Logan Killicks ripped away her earliest dream and…

A Woman’s Voice: Female Empowerment in Their Eyes Were Watching God “Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves” (Hurston, 192). The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston chronicles a woman’s journey of self-realization and empowerment. It follows the tribulations of Janie as she…

Self-fulfillment. In life, people have many different goals. Everybody wants to fulfill their dreams and make the best out of their lives. Janie Crawford, a young woman who is the main protagonist in Their Eyes Were Watching God is no exception. Janie’s dream is to find true love. While looking for true love, Janie meets Johnny Taylor. She proceed to to get to know him without regard to his background information or anything. He eventually becomes…

Emma Whitesell Miss Sibbach AP English 12 December, 2014 Their Eyes Were Watching God’s Rendition The deviation that Zora Neale Hurston and Oprah Winfrey depict from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God to the movie is highly significant. The people closest to Janie will have a dramatic change in their relationship as well as the true meaning behind the novel. The characteristics and symbolisms Janie had throughout the movie convey how Oprah interpreted the novel. Much divergence between…

Ages of Love Being in love is tough, but after craving affection for so long, our main character finally found what she was looking for. Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, we, the readers, follow Janie, the main character’s life over a number of years. In the beginning, Janie lies under a pear tree dreaming about what love is like, but by the end of the book, she achieves the love desired. It defiantly took longer than she expected, but her dreams finally came…

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…

In Zora Neal Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie went through a series of metaphorical stages that transformed the way she viewed life; her journey towards independence required her to depart from Logan, battle for her voice with Jody, and finally to achieve individuality with Teacake. Throughout Janie and Jody’s relationship, Janie was constantly silenced by Jody’s dominating personality. Jody treats Janie as if she were an animal that has no mind. For example, Jody silenced Janie…