Their Eyes Were Watching God

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…

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…

You find freedom inside- nowhere else. In the heart of every human being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love” (Rawat). In the novel ,Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a story of a girl growing into womanhood on the journey to feel the meaning of true love and to feel the importance of self needs . From one relationship to another Janie has constantly had her power stripped from her; being oppressed Janie finally takes control of her life…

Throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie takes on multiple personas based on her relationships, but she is never able to fully reinvent herself. In order for one to become a new person, one must know exactly who they are naturally. Since Janie spends her whole life controlled by others, her changing character is never a result of inward reflection, and therefore does not truly represent reinvention. Janie is not victorious in her attempts to begin a new,…

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…

Witnesses Their Eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, It is a novel about a young lady named Janie and her experiences of love. Janie is a beautiful woman, who dreams and tries to find her true love since she was young. She wishes she would have a lovely marriage and a perfect lover, but unfortunately, life does not goes the way she wants. When she becomes an adult, she has to marry a guy who she does not love. Her love life and her dreams starts to be ruined. She has to…

Quote: “The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in the company with the others in their shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seem to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” Question: Compare and contrast Janie’s three marriages. What initially pulls her to each of the three men? How do they differ from one another? How does she…

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…

Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel written by Zora Neale Hurston, depicts the tumultuous tale of Janie, a black woman living in the South, and her love affairs and journey of self-realization. Due to Hurston’s culturally rich scenes and choice of narration, using dialect traditional of southern black, this classic novel can be interpreted as a folktale. Folktales, defined as “… tale[s] or… legend[s] originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially… forming part of the oral…

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…