Analysis Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston is an emotional story that defines the anthropology of humans and exemplifies the raw nature of people. Zora Neale Hurston, who lived during the Harlem Renaissance, translates the struggles and victories of the age of cultural movement. One thing that Hurston learnt through working with anthropologist Frank Boaz was that race means little, humans are humans, the color of their skin was irrelevant. This not a book about a black girl named Janie, but a woman who is on a quest for humanity and respect. Many other writers and poets, including Langston Hughes, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Jean Toomer, all contributed to the racial and cultural revolution that

Racism is portrayed in an interesting way in Their Eyes Were Watching God. For example, Janie and Tea Cake encounter Mrs Turner, a black lady who is racist towards other blacks. Whether white or black, everyone in this book seems to have been affected by racism in some way; many different perspectives of racism are investigated in this book. Naturally, this is intriguing because the reader discovers a three-dimensional aspect to a topic that has always seemed very black and white. Zora Neale Hurston paints a picture of racism in an odd manor, bringing a different perspective to a global conflict at the time. Having living in a time where black culture was on the rise, Hurston may have felt obliged to write about new perspectives of racism that she had discovered through the Harlem Renaissance and events

She tends to generalize a lot in this scene and accuses all black people for having specific characteristics based of off a stereotype. Having suffering from the worst of the racial conflicts, Mrs. Turner may feel comfort in blaming someone, or some group of people, for racial conflicts. She blames race problems on the amount of black people, rather than the oppression coming from white people. In her opinion, equality could be possible, if black people were to stop singing their songs and laughing their laughs. Mrs Turner’s beliefs that black people are at fault for racism reflects her subtle bitterness to the world. Janie, being the gracious person that she is, describes Mrs Turner as proud. “But Mrs. Turner’s shape and features were entirely approved by Mrs Turner” (140). A woman who doesn’t need to be approved by anyone but herself, Mrs Turner has unconsciously put herself on a pedestal of pride. Her self-implied authority gives herself the power to say what she believes and to insist that it is