Summary Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by, Zora Neale Hurston Janie, strives to find her own voice throughout the novel and she succeeds even though it takes her time to do it. Each one of her husband’s has a different effect on her ability to find her voice.
Janie had noticed that she did not have a voice when Jody was appointed mayor by the town’s people and she was asked to give a few words on his behalf, but she did not answer, because before she could even say anything Jody had stated “ ‘Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ’bout no speech-makin’/Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn’t too easy/…the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything on way or another that took

“At five-thirty a tall man came into the place/‘Good evenin’’ Mis’ Starks,’ he said with a sly grin as if they had a good joke together” (Hurston 94). From the time he met Janie, to the time he married her. Whenever he was around her, she could not help but smile. He began to hang around the store more often, and he and Janie became friends. He convinced her to do adventurous things like, go fishing, take up shooting game, and even playing checkers. It was not too long after that he began courting Janie. Just like the blossoms she witnessed blooming on the pear tree as a young girl; Tea Cake caused her to blossom again. The kind of love that Tea Cake and her share is the kind she had imagined since she was a young girl under the pear tree. They eventually get married and move to a place called the “muck” in the Florida Everglades. Life in the muck is the polar opposite of life in Eatonville. Instead of a big, white house, she lived in a shack. Instead of sitting around all day looking like the wife of a mayor, Janie went out into the fields and picked beans. Their life in the muck was simple and after a long day of work their shack became the center for everyone to gather and relax after a long day of working in the fields. Be that as it may, life was not always that easy, for instance when Tea Cake hits Janie. Mrs. Turner, a mulatto women who owned a eating place in the muck, disliked black people—especially Tea Cake. One day he came home and heard her talking about him and how she wanted Janie to meet her brother. “When Mrs. Turner’s brother came and she brought him over to be introduced, Tea Cake had brainstorm: (Hurston 147). He whipped Janie not because he was angry at her but to reassure himself that she still belonged to him, and to show her show her that he was in charge. Another instance where life in the muck is once again disturbed is the hurricane. The hurricane is