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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…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston writes a story that revolutionizes and contradicts the traditional gender roles of the 1930’s. The basis of this book is about the ever-changing love life about a young girl named Janie. Throughout her various marriages, she becomes versed in herself and in the end, learns to be self-reliant and not reliable on others. Her first marriage was set up on a false hope. Every grandmother’s hope for her grandchild is to be married and…

Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, follows the maturation of the protagonist, Janie Crawford Starks. Throughout her life, she comes across people who work towards subduing or building her voice and image. With the insight into the ideologies that are held by each individual she encounters, the reader is able to grasp a wholesome understanding of the era in which Janie lived; a time of hardship engendered by prejudice and injustice. Multiple characters, including Janie,…

The ending of Their Eyes Were Watching God is overall optimistic. Janie Crawford, at a young age, saw a glimpse of the excitement of freedom, but once she realised the fullness in life that she desired, she could not have it. Her grandmother, who only had her best interests in mind, was the first of many to repress Janie’s character along with her identity. Janie spent most of her life being someone other than her true self, and struggled to accept the restrained freedom. From husband to husband…

novel is ought to read as both universal and particularly a black story because Hurston novel is a bildungsroman where the reader sees Janie’s development to womanhood in the novel. Ralph Thompson’s, Books of the Times, review stated that “Their Eyes Were Watching God is a story of Janie, who marries three times…in the case of Janie, we follow a typical progress from girlhood to middle age”. Not only does Janie’s three marriages portray her search for love, it portrays the stages of a girl…

Stevland Hardaway Judkins name by his parents Calvin Judkins and Lula May Judkins. Wonder was blind due to the fact that he did not receive enough oxygen in the incubator as a premature baby. So he was diagnosis with retinopathy of prematurity, which made him blind. Wonder had numerous talents that he showed, which people recognize first in his church choir in Detroit, Michigan, where he and his family moved to when he was 4 years old. However, in his new home of Detroit, Michigan, denying his…

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…

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…

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…

porch sitters watch. There was “A big burst of laughter at Daisy’s discomfiture. The boys had to act out their rivalry too. Only this time, everybody knew they meant some of it. But all the same the porch enjoyed the play and helped out whenever extras were needed” (67). Hurston uses diction choices of “play,” “act out,” and “extras” to connote this scene with a play, as if already scripted, and the “characters” of the town are just acting it out. The townspeople are only conforming to the…