Watching and Waiting

Their Eyes Were Watching God is Zora Neale Hurston’s most most praised enthusiastically work.This story in it's settings shows a tradition and gives a community its roots. The story starts out with Janie coming into Eatonville (after being gone two years) alone and in dirty overalls. The porch sitters all talk trash about why she is back in such a condition. She left when she married Tea Cake and went with him to pick beans. Janie is in her forties when she comes back but the story…

In this novel, Their eyes were watching God, by Zora Neil Hurston, they're were many examples of love and passion. Their were three love interest in this novel who mainly were there to support Janie. Those of which were Tea Cake, Logan, and Joe. There was one love interest that stood out the most in this novel. In Their eyes were watching God, Tea Cake's love interest in Janie is visualized several times throughout this story. Logan and Janie's relationship was arranged and unsuccessful…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the author, Zora N. Hurston, focuses on Janie Starks journey for love. Growing up Janie's grandmother tried to obscure her views on love by forcing her into marriage with Logan Killicks. Even Though Nanny raised Janie on certain values for love, Janie met Tea Cakes and found the love she has been longing for. In the novel the horizon symbolized Janie life opportunities. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's grandmother teaching on love coupled with…

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a novel about Janie Crawford, an African American girl with white heritage, recalling her life since she left Eatonville, Florida. The book begins with Janie telling her story to her friend Phoebe. Starting at her childhood, Janie explains how she was raised by her grandmother and fills Phoebe in on the most defining events during that time. She explains how she found out she was not white like the other children she was around and recalls…

Darnell Martin is the director of the film and Zora Neale Hurston is the author of the book Their eyes were watching God. Each portray Janie in many different likes to fit the setting of their own time. This article will do a comparison and contrasted between both the director, author, and the charter Janie. Love, female pride, and social view are a few of the many points that both the director and the author are hitting on but with their own twist. Love through Janie in theory is suppose to…

In Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, we witness the different types of love Janie experienced in her life. We see her start off with the love of her grandmother, transition into the love of her husbands, and then we finish off with the realization of exactly how much love Pheoby has for her long time friend. Nanny’s love was fueled by the want to give Janie all of the things that Nanny wanted in life, whether Janie wanted them or not. Nanny didn't want what happened to Leafy,…

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…