Horizon

each of them she initially believes she loves. However, as the story continues, she learns that she does not truly love to of them, while she does love her last marriage of Tea Cake. The novel explores Janie’s journey of love with the motif of the horizon as she goes from one marriage to another, figuring out true love is something that comes with both choice, and having a voice. The novel…

it enough for her not being able to handle things the way she wanted for herself. As time goes by and learning from experience and life lessons, Janie was able to say “been horizon and back”. Showing she has completed her finding of her horizon: “So Ah’m back home agin and Ah’m satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons” (191). She has found herself as a whole and lived to the fullest of her life without any regrets.…

differences in the dreams of Men and women. In which it describes as men always watchers of the horizon over the sea always looking for their boat to take them there. While women always remember what they want to and forget what they don’t want to remember. This sets up as realist while alluding men to be opportunistic. Which I think contradicts the story because Janie is always looking toward that horizon of happiness…

From the beginning of time, men and women have always had this slight inequality between them. Men were always looked upon as the “bread winners” and women were seen as the “housewives”. Women were also frowned upon if they did anything that seemed fit for a man only. As a whole, women had no rights and no voice at all. The fascinating book by Zora Neale Hurston called “Their eyes were watching God”, relates to this very feeling of women not having a say so and being ruled by their husband, this…

that she refused to tie up her hair makes her unique and she doesn't seem to care what others think about her and what is the “norm”. But when Jody makes her tie up her hair, she agrees just to make him happy and no longer jealous. Horizon and the Pear Tree- The horizon and the pear tree symbolizes Janie’s views of nature and how her life interacts with it. When the bees go to pollinate the pear tree, Janie thought about the bees beauty and their erotic passion with nature and she ponders about…

grandmother as a very strong important figure. Hurston writes “Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon-for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you,” (89) which portrays Nanny's view that dreams can never be obtained. The author uses the motif of horizons to symbolize that love is just a dream and no one could ever reach the horizon, therefore no one can ever reach love. This perspective is then set on Janie which complicates her vision on ever…

You observe as far as your eyes can see. Then, standing in higher ground, you look again at the horizon. By doing so you can notice that the higher up you are the farther you will see. Even if you would have a completely clear landscape you would see much farther from greater height than you would on the ground. This is caused by the curvature of the…

Symbolism the Different Views When reading a book the author will use symbolism, it is up to the reader to decide what the symbol may mean. Although, the readers may read the book, the reader may not catch all the symbolism that the author can be portraying. We all have different interpretations to the objects that the author has presented us with. There are different interpretations that may be looked at in a deeper perspective, but yet we may find that the others interpretation may be similar…

Space is a vast and unexplored region, the exploration of which is necessary to satiate mankind’s curiosity and answer the enduring question, “What is our place in the universe?” The need to explore and understand the universe we live in has driven us to establish government agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), whose main goal is to study outer space. NASA’s projects have led to many great advancements, including the…

protagonist of the novel, has a vivid relationship with the nature. As “nature is de first of everything” (Hurston 65), it is used as fundamental symbols and motifs, resembling different parts of Janie’s life. The usage of the pear tree, mule and horizon represent Janie’s coming of age, which eventually awakens her true self that is trapped within her because of race and gender roles of the society. Living in a white-dominant society, Janie and the other “colored folks” (Hurston 28) are…