Their Eyes Were Watching God

communicating. While watching the movie, it really showed me what it was like to be deaf. I was really interested in the origin of ASL, and how it grew. One of my favorite things I learned was about the deaf football teams, and how they invented the huddle so the other team couldn’t read their signs. Another thing that I fount very interesting was the things that people did to try and cure their child’s deafness. Like put their kid in a plane, and make the plane do loops. Then there were …

Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird and Their Eyes Were Watching God, the path to maturity is very significant. Jem Finch matures throughout the To Kill a Mockingbird and it helps the audience feel emotions about the events. Janie Crawford’s path to maturity, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, is quite different than Jem’s path. Janie matured in the aspect of love, where as Jem matured in the aspect of life. Jem and Janie’s paths to maturity are very significant to both novels and helps the audience…

My top three reasons to go to Rome were: number one understand the reasons for their gods and goddesses, number two learn how they made buildings that are still standing today and number 3 is to see what was happening or did happen and how it really went down, but that doesn’t come till…

was born January 7, 1891 in Notusulg, Alabama. Shortly after she was born, she moved to a small town called Eatonville, which was the town she explains in the story. Many of the people she knew growing up were similar to the people she characterized in the story of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Eatonville was home to her because the black people could live there as they pleased. Hurston had her work cut out for as she grew up , but eventually broke free from that and became an inspiration to…

of the Harlem Renaissance, in the cultural capital of the United States. She was writing in contrast to many authors discovering and finally gaining recognition for new styles of literature, such as Langston Hues, Nella Larson, and Claude McKay who were depicting the experiences of black Americans and racism on a national scale. Amidst a “black renaissance,” it makes sense that Hurston only “felt” her race when in white contexts, like Barnard. She described the phenomenon: “Among thousand white…

semester we have read many texts including Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. In all three of these texts, the theme of external evil being inside you all along is prevalent. Such as in Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, the beast which was thought to inhabit the island the boys were stranded in turned out to be a figment of one of the boys' imagination “Beastie. A snake thing ever so big he saw it.…

important questions about the meaning of life and the existence of God. He begins his article by stating the plots of the two lives being shown in the movie. One in particular, of a man named Jonah where he questions his own values based on his life situation in that moment. Conard makes the premise that Jonah got away with murder because his views on God were not demeaning to his own life. Meaning that since Jonah did not actively follow God, like his friend rabbi Ben, he was able to get away…

During the time period that Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright were writing, there was a conflict between African American writers. The conflict was that some of those writers were focused more on creating a “useable past” that disregarded the topic of slavery by using Africa to reclaim the positive image of Africa. As to where the other writers, such as Zora Neale Hurston, was focused on using the past that she was a part of and actually experienced. She was not concerned about creating a…

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, both protagonists attempt to break free of the initial social confines they were presented with to understand and sate the universal desires for love and freedom. By using both subliminal and explicit symbolism in the recurrence of family ties, hair, and water, both Hurston and Chopin state that the regulations of society hinder those living in it, namely women. Janie’s marriages and Edna’s children have one…

however, the speaker’s expectations are not met, “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-“(1). The reader is introduced to a fly buzzing around the room, which ironically is not the grand entrance that the speaker was lead to believe greets all worshipers of God. Dickinson implies that the speaker is greeted with disappointment by hearing a fly buzz around the room, as it would fly around a rotting corpse.…