Hurston uses the imagery of the inside of Janie’s mind to display Janie breaking through a wall of sorts and displaying that one must go search for their lost objects if one wants to find themselves again. Some of the men were talking near Janie about what they would do had a women embarrassed them in front of people and that is when “Janie did what she had never done before, that is, thrust herself into the conversation”. (75) The word never means that an event or action will at no time occur…
the common view of love as unimportant and lighthearted. When love is restored, it’s like a fountain of youth, having found love makes Janie feel like she’s finally accomplished her goal in life, to find love. Love plays a very important role in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes were watching God. Janie spent all her days looking for love. She thought of love just as she thought of springtime: Sunny days, bright skies, a bee pollinating pear tree blossoms. She searched far to long for this…
Seeing love as a goal, a great achievement, at a young age Janie believed in love and pursued it. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston a woman's obsession to express sexuality evolves. The main character Janie begins her adventure into womanhood at the age of sixteen, unwillingly leaving her innocence behind when she sees a significant correlation with a bee and a pear blossom to sex but mostly love. On a search Janie makes decisions that don’t help her to reach her…
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,…
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…
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is an inspirational novel. The protagonist, Janie, embarks on a journey of self discovery, through heartbreak, domestic abuse, and happiness, she learns that she is free to make her own choices and live life her own way. One of the biggest themes in the novel is love. From the very beginning Janie is searching for love and what it means. Throughout Janie’s different marriages, she develops her own idea of what love is, which she eventually…
love through her journey to freedom. In the book Their eyes were watching God, Zora Neale Hurston utilizes Janie’s awakenings by different literary devices like simile, metaphor and personification to portrait excitement and suspense. Janie discovers her first internal awakening when she was sitting under the pear tree. Hurston depicts Janie’s exciting experience through the use of personification and syntax.…
The book I read, which is called “THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD” by Zora Neale Hurston is one of the best books I have ever read. The story is set in southern United States, during the early twentieth century when racism, freedom, and sexism were major struggles that the U.S. was facing at the time. Along with that the story is mostly told through first person, but is sometimes narrated to clarify certain events considering the dialect the people of that time spoke ion. The book has a timeline of…
plethora of events, actions, characters, dialogue and themes that pertain to past or present issues buried in the roots of society. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, which documents the protagonist Janie and her quest to find true love, is a tremendous example of a work of literature that falls under this category. Hurston is able to address the devastating effects of wanting to climb up the social status ladder, the denouncing of women, along…
In the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston a lady named Janie, who lives with her grandmother, tries to search for love in different places. Everyone knows that love is hard to find, but people still choose to try to find it. Sometimes in life people try to compare different things that match to see if true love equals the amount of time spent and the number of time people involves their self in. In Their Eyes Were Watching God one of the central themes is people will…