Summary Of The Novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

Hello, respected American Library Association. With all the respect, I am sending this letter to discuss about the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. This novel has been on list of banned and challenged books according to your association reasons being novel’s language and sexual explicitness. Although Hurston uses poetic language, full of metaphors and images, I am aware there is one scene in the book where Janie starts feeling stirrings of her sexuality beneath a pear tree. However, this is a part of Janie’s story as a teenager, and it is a natural state. This rather is the part of book where students can relate with Janie as being in same stage in life. This book has also been challenged for use of language. I am aware the black characters in the book speak in a phonetic

What makes this book special is, it teaches more about life. Janie is portrayed as being the bottom of the totem pole. However, despite her physical trait, she decides to becomes independent and proceeds find her true love. This is a major theme of the novel, which students can learn a lot from. We should also recognize the fact that being black women in 20th century and but its rather about finding what you really consider love in your life. It has a deep message and I firmly believe it will help students gain confidence by Janie’s brave actions. Lastly, I am aware the book has been criticized because some believed the novel was not radical enough in its condemnation of racism. However, the main focus of this novel was not to show how mistreated blacks were in the 1900’s. There are many other novels focusing just on the discrimination, but the main theme of this novel is simply doing what you want to do regardless of how you are being portrayed by the community. Although this novel is written back in 1930’s, people today can be inspired by the message from