When a reader reads a book, they try to use their imaginations. However, has it ever came across a readers mind that they may have been reading an autobiography or how much of the book is the author’s reality. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston we see events that have happened or even reflect events that occurred in Hurston’s lifetime. My first impression of the book was how could Hurston make the events that current occur in her life or even in her relationships so vivid. Hurston did not just have everything a happy ending she put the reality into things. The main character Janie, throughout the novel has to make tough decisions. Janie first obstacle comes across her when her grandma Nanny decides that “ Yeah, Janie, youse got yo’ womanhoodon yuh. So Ah wants to see you married right away” ( Hurston 12). …show more content…
Therefore may show that her book could be an autobiography. One character sticks out, which is Tea Cake because to resembles her real life boyfriend Percival McGuire Punter. They had something like Janie and Tea Cake had where only “Hurston and Punter were immersed in an intensely passionate, mutually satisfying romance a relationship that thrice-married called ‘the real love affair of my life’” (Boyd 9). Next, could the fight that Janie and Tea Cake basic off Hurston argument she once had with Punter. Zora once mention that Punter did get jealous when she let a man kiss her on the cheek. The situation of jealousy lead to the point where in “Hurston’s horror, she and Punter were soon trading slaps and shoves… but combat nonetheless. Stunned by the wrong turn their passion had taken, the two ended up on the floor together, entwined mutual apologies” (10). Again it only goes to shows that she has used her life experiences to have incorporate into the