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“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream.”- Cornelia Funke. In literature the story Their Eyes Watching God by Zora Hurston is a perfect display of love, heartache, and cruelty. This story showcases the prominent character Janie. As the cruelty of the world spirals around Janie involving her love life is shown throughout. As the story unfolds through Janie's recollection you see how the world's cruelty reveals Janie's inner strength. Cruelty forces Janie to rely on…

fail to cross these hurdles, but those that do take pride in the fact that they have found true love. Everyone in his or her journey of life is in constant pursuit of finding eternal love, including the character Janie Crawford from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. At the age of sixteen, her witnessing of the embrace between the flowers and the bees under a pear tree causes Janie to begin her quest for finding true love. Although she fails to achieve this dream of eternal love from her…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie Crawford goes through many moments of adversity and triumph. First, we see her end up as a 18 year old who is stuck with an old man named Logan Killicks who she leaves for a younger, more successful man named Joe Starks who is new and exciting. She then is forced into a prolonged marriage where she is emotionally restrained as well as physically abused at times all while working like a slave in a shop where she can’t talk to…

In Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she uses a lot of symbolism and references to nature through the story of the main character, Janie, in her lifetime. The use of tree symbolism is the most common in the first half of Hurston’s novel starting with how “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches” (8) In the beginning of the book, we understand that Janie has just been…

In Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, we witness the different types of love Janie experienced in her life. We see her start off with the love of her grandmother, transition into the love of her husbands, and then we finish off with the realization of exactly how much love Pheoby has for her long time friend. Nanny’s love was fueled by the want to give Janie all of the things that Nanny wanted in life, whether Janie wanted them or not. Nanny didn't want what happened to Leafy,…

Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, follows the life of a mixed black woman’s search for love. The speaker of the novel, Janie Crawford, tells her story to a friend upon returning to Eatonville, Florida. When published, the novel didn’t receive much positive feedback; instead it received criticism for portraying a black community in such a way that opens up more discrimination from the white men surrounding them. However, Hurston presents the black community in a way…

accomplished through the use of symbolism and imagery, two crucial items which, when combined, transform the mind of the reader to Rembrandt’s white canvas. Few novels are able to transcend time using their messages, and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of them. As Janie Crawford, the protagonist of the novel, embarks upon her journey to the horizon in a desperate search for love, Hurston fills the novel’s…

Stephen Nathanson argues about how the philosophy of “An Eye for an Eye?” and how applying this to punish criminals is bad. While Igor Primoratz argues ways on justifying legal punishments”. Stephen Nathan states that “All it tells us is that the worst crimes ought to be met with the harshest punishment. But it says nothing about how harsh those punishment should be”(Shafer-Landau 380). Bythis quote he is staying that he knows that criminal should be punish for their actions however no one…

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is set in Florida during the late 1930’s about a woman telling her story to a young girl about how she turned her life around. The novel is set up as a frame, in which the story starts and ends the same way, with only a couple hours going by. Janie and Pheoby are sitting outside on the porch, while Janie is telling a story. The story is the novel, but in the end, only two hours had gone by and both women are sitting in the same rocking chairs as…

The Hurricane and flood in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston illuminates the similarity between the novel and the natural disaster that occurred in south Florida in 1992. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist, Janie has one main life goal, to try and find her true self. She marries and remarries three times in hope of finding the right man who can help her find herself. Hurricane Andrew that took place in south Florida in 1992 has a correlation…