Their Eyes Were Watching God

From the book written by author Neale Hurston, “Their eyes were watching God”, the author numerous times have used a main character named Janie to illustrate a universal message to readers of what it would take to be an independent person. And throughout the novel readers begin to notice how Janie as a person growing up have always questioned her identity alongside with society's expedition of how a woman should behave. And by living up to her mother's expectations, Janie has lost her voice and…

Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an African-American Alabama native born in 1891, a daughter of two slaves (Biography.com). She lived when slavery was still prominent in colonial America, and she gathered many of her ideas from her own experiences growing up- who would later become a writer and anthropologist who fixtured her work on the Harlem Renaissance in the 1900s (Biography.com) Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston there is a…

Oppressive love is a Venus Fly Trap; getting too close to it will eventually cause the plant to snatch the victim with its beautifully dangerous traps. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God explores the journey of Janie Crawford, a southern black woman struggling to be set free from oppression. While marriage should be based on love and affection, Janie’s marriages are based on submission. Because of this abusive love, Janie loses her self-image while yielding to the needs of…

hard work and dedication, everyone is given equal opportunity to achieve happiness and prosperity. This dream is seen in all shapes and sizes, and through Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Something To Declare By Julia Alvarez, we are able to see many different types of these dreams play out. In Their Eyes Were Watching God’s first few chapters we are introduced to Janie’s first husband, Logan Killocks. Logan had asked for Janie’s hand in marriage because he wanted a wife,…

she kept looking to find happiness in guys instead of making herself happy. Janie aimed to make everyone else happy and please them, but then she realized that she needed to make herself happy and do things for herself. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the pear tree helps to express her struggle to find her identity. Janie hoped to find love and happiness in a man, but what she got was nothing like she expected it to be. As a young girl, Janie always wanted…

Their Eyes Were Watching God p 21). Anything that Nanny had told Janie she instantly believed which left her unhappy in the end. Janie’s second marriage failed because society made her husband believe that he could treat her any type of way and get away with it because she was beneath him as his wife. The spark that ruined their marriage was when the narrator stated that “Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible.” (Hurston Their Eyes…

Freedom is something we all dream of. Thousands have died for our country, so that we have the privilege of saying what we mean, and we have the choice to do what we want. In the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie struggles with the topic of freedom. Throughout her various marriages, Janie has trouble with finding her own identity. She also has trouble breaking free from the harsh rule of her first two marriages. However, as her life goes on, Janie has a clearer…

Injustice of Women Women have suffered and dealt with the tragedies of what is American history. Inequality is the most important struggle that women have had to overcome. Gender inequality is the basis of which this novel lies around. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the women are portrayed as housewives who can only depend upon the power of their spouse. Along with Annie Tyler and Mrs. Turner, Janie Crawford is just one of these characters who is represented in an unfair way. Janie deals…

The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, is a depiction of an endless journey through the eyes of a woman named Janie and her longevity of a life. Janie finds herself struggling in three contrasting marriages. In each of these relationships, evidence proves that loneliness lingers in the shadows. Some may believe that when one is exclusive with another and they are explicitly loved, it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t convey loneliness, while others would…

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and “Lines…” by William Wordsworth are two pieces of writing that are related in a variety of ways, some clear and others more obtuse. One of the largest and most notable relations they have is the theme of nature within both of them. They both possess a regulating theme of nature. Whether it be through the characters, the setting, or the general vibe the writer sets, the idea of nature is very present throughout both writings and plays a large…