In the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, characterizes the meaning of the Harlem Renaissance through the story line of this book. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” tells a story about a black Southern lady by the name of Janie Crawford. Janie a woman who refuses to live her life in sorrow, fear, and dispair tries to pertinent as an independent woman, but catches herself going through three seprate marriages, all love with dispairety. In the beginning of this novel, the author depicts a picture of Eatonville (where the story takes place). Eatonville is described to be more of a low class, southern area and mostly everyone dressed the same, so if anyone was to be dressed in a particular way, it would be assumed automatically …show more content…
Like shown on chapter 4, pg 26 of the book, Janie explains: “ Ah’m just as stiff as you is scout. If you can stand not to chop and tote wood Ah reckon you can stand not to git no dinner. ‘Scuse mah freezolity, Mist’ Killicks…” As you can see, the grammar is poorly used and because of their Southern background, their choice of words and accent also effect their literature. Even though there are many differences between this book and the Harlem Renaissance, one main thing they share is the pride. In the book, Zora shows how the characters have pride in their countries roots and heritage, for example Mrs. Turner, a woman who very much disliked black people even though she was black herself, would explain to Janie of how rusty black men and women were and the style of clothes they’d wear, the hollering, and chaos they make was the reason why non black folks hated black folks, but Janie’s third husband Tea Cake explains: “Mah Janie is uh high time woman and uster things. Ah didn’t git her outa de middle uh de road. Ah got her outa uh big fine house.” (Ch 17, Pg 148). In this quote, it explains how Tea Cake shows pride in his woman for what she is and could care less about what Mrs. Turner had to say about any black persons features. In the Harlem Renaissance though, they didn’t show much pride in features, but mostly in the