A Brief Review Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

How are the events from the Harlem Renaissance portrayed in the book, Their Eyes were watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, compare to the real events that took place during the Harlem Renaissance? Hurston was an anthropologist and novelist during the 1900s and had published the book Their Eyes were watching God, in 1937 during a trip to Haiti. In her book, we are introduced to some either important or main characters like Janie, Vergible ‘Tea Cake’ Woods, Joe, Mr. Killicks and Janie’s Grandmother. Hurston’s book, Their Eyes were watching God, is set in the early 1900s around 1915 and 1935, in which the experience of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s begins and ends just as the Great Depression had began to start around 1929. In the many events depicted in Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing is both a reflection of and departure from the ideas of the Harlem Renaissance.

In the book, Hurston conveys the theme of alienation, with the african americans different practices and the fact that there were black slaves and writes about what they had felt and went through during that time. This was a real thing just before and in the very early stages of the Harlem Renaissance. Although she altered how it was established, it was still an accurate representation for what had happened. She had used Janie’s Grandmother ‘Nanny’ to deliver this information with her perspective of what she went through. A few examples of this include the time she was talking to Janie about what she went