Analysis Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

A system of rules intended to deprive women of their rights and firmly subjugate them to their husbands was brought to the New World by the first English immigrants. Women are still denied human rights and are kept in the background in various countries throughout the world today. The book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston shows Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny" (Zora Neale Hurston). First published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God opens a teaching to young women who are Black and struggle to find peace with themselves and their significant other. Today, Ongoing struggles include forced marriages, women's racial struggles,

“In 2003, the International Center for Research on Women estimated that over 51 million girls under the age of 18 were forcibly married”( the International Center for Research on Women). Women of any size and any age experience forced marriage and are not able to have a choice to be able to marry who they chose. Through the book Their Eyes Were Watching God Hutson explained how this idea was shown in her book. Janie Crawford was forced to be engaged to Logan Killicks, by her Nanny who is her grandmother. Her grandmother only wants what's best for Jaine. Jaine's mother was raped by her Teacher and ran off, abanding Jaine with her mother to care for her. Nanny doesn't want Jaine to grow up in a white family and struggle to live so it is why she ended up having Jaine marry Logan. But he was not a man of goodwill he was very controlling of Jaine and demanded of her to work on the field and do household needs around the house. He verbally abused her and caused her to become trapped in a marriage with him. She soon was fed up with his ways and it was his actions that made her leave town and start fresh with a new beginning seeking new love. Forced marriages have been making young girls and women of all races feel depressed, irritable, with low self-esteem, and rage, yet racial struggles create these

“They are penalized in school, directed toward the criminal justice system after enduring physical or sexual abuse, exposed to racial profiling and police brutality, and jailed at rates substantially higher than their percentage of the population, these are all examples of how racism affects black girls and women” (Susan Green). Hurston explores this topic in the book Their eyes were watching God. When Jaine was a young little girl she was raised by Nanny and she would go to school with white folk who made her realize she was a darker compilation than they were and she became a target for the white little girls in a school of the color of her skin and they way she dressed. Throughout Janie's three marriages, she was able to surpass her life goal and become a