Their Eyes Were Watching God

Symbolism in The Great Gatsby serves as a connection of the novel to the struggling decade at the time. The Roaring Twenties was plagued with a handful of economic issues and the struggle to obtain the American Dream. Described by Taylor Hales, “Considering the context in which organized crime grew - namely the setting of Chicago, its government system, layout, difficulty of attaining a decent job, hard times of The Depression, and Prohibition - it almost seems inevitable for this growth to…

independence and sense of self when she enters a relationship or a marriage with a man, for our society has long been a patriarchal one. However, according to Zora Neale Hurston and Lorraine Hansberry, this is not the case. In her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston debunks this belief by portraying the main character, Janie as a woman who only becomes progressively stronger and more independent after each of her three marriages. Beneatha, a protagonist in Lorraine…

Buchanan. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one important topic is the various symbols illustrated in the novel representing “The American Dream”, some of which include the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg.…

hundred eleven percent. Many of them came to look for jobs which were given to them by new industries that had sprout up such as the automotive factories. Many…

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS The movie Crime and Misdemeanors is a Woody Allen’s movie focused onto the lives of two men with entirely distinct characters. The movie presents an eye doctor Judah as the person who is wealthy and his family is very reputed in the society his father is a famous religious man. Judah has an extra martial affair wherein Judah as his brother to kill his mistress to avoid shame for his family when his mistress threatens him to go public about their affair, Judah…

the examination table of a higher being any daily passings, trials and tribulations seem but a speck in the grand scope of the universe’s happenings, as seen in her quote, “ a mote in the eye of God was the phrase that came to me in the room off the reception area”(Didion 15) Her husband’s funeral arrangements were just that, a passing phase within the expanses of history and the reels of the time. Along with Didion's perception of religion as a predetermined disposition of humanity, early on…

name Esperanza who expresses and talks about her life growing up in Chicago with her family. Throughout the story she goes through different changes mentally and physically while meeting new people along the way. In the second novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford is a middle aged lack woman whom can be witnessed as also being on a journey trying to find a factors worthy on a relationship. Throughout the story, Janie marries three times and her relationships…

Zora Neale Hurston’s classical African American novel published in 1937 expresses the story of a young African American woman and the journey she takes in order to find her self identity and overcome male dominance. Following the publication of the novel, many critics examined the image of Janie Crawford and the idea of feminism. Hurston illustrates in her novel the patriarchal dominance within the society through Janie Crawford who is subjected to the identity others have made for her and how…

Frederick Douglass. Religion is a system of faith and worship in a God. In The Narrative of Frederick Douglass religion takes a toll on everybody in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass. There are a lot of mixed feelings about religion in…

The younger generation of Negro writers during the New Negro Arts Movement created a space in which Their Eyes Were Watching God could exist within. Alain Locke (1885-1954) and Langston Hughes both advocated for the inclusion of art that was not solely political, or at least not solely adhering to the positive, respectability aspects of political theory. Locke, himself, found his voice to be in inherent opposition to the stringent views of Du Bois and went on to transcend the restraints of…