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When relating to someone you hold similar characteristics as them or consociate on a physical or emotional level. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” I partially relate to Pheoby Watson who is apart of the community/outsiders. Pheoby Watson is the best friend of the main character Janie after she moves to Maitland/Eatonville. Pheoby is married to Sam Watson and quickly becomes Janie’s confidante due to her being affable. She looks up to Janie for love inspiration even though she is quite beneficent with her own love life.
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” Jane Austen. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston depicted the travels of Janie Crawford and her understanding of womanhood and freedom through her several marriages. Throughout the book, Hurston portrays the growth of Janie and her ideals, her hair being a major recurring symbol.
In life, some people are motivated by selfish feelings or desires but sometimes these selfish ambitions have a negative effect on other people as in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. In this novel, Janie is a character who is on a journey motivated by finding herself, however, the desires of others always seem get in the way. Nanny’s selfish ambitions are the first to affect Janie on her journey, soon followed by Joe Starks, Mrs. Turner, and even Tea Cake. Throughout this novel, the strive for money and power are recurring desires that inevitably result in unhappiness and pain for Janie. It all starts with Nanny, in this novel Janie’s grandmother only wants the best for Janie and she thinks her decisions are in Janie's best
A time of artistic and musical talent. A time of inspiration, happiness, and renewal. A time, of change, delightment, and excitement. The rise of black people as a community and how they contributed to society in America. Zora Neal Hurstson Zora Neal Hurstson’s
How important is independence to you? If a life of finically security was promised to you in exchange for own freedom, would you take it? This is what the main character of Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American southern spiritual novel by Zora Neal Hurston, had to ask herself. This novel tells the story of Janie Crawford as she searches for true love and her own independence. She experiences many different relationships throughout her life, and with each of her marriages learns more about herself and what it means to love and be loved.
Whoever knew how difficult love can be. Love changes like the season. Summer and Spring are your happy moments. Winter and Fall are the bad moments. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston shows how quick and easy love changes overtime.
In the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, finally breaks away from loveless marriages when she meets Tea Cake, fulfilling her desire of a healthy relationship. The moment Janie married her first husband, Logan Killicks, she wanted to believe that love will come with the marriage. She later realized that love does not come easily, “ She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman” (Hurston 25). Her grandmother had forced her to marry Logan, for the reason of a set dowry.
As Janie ages, she has been going through different stages of loves and misloves, which gradually introduced her to reveal her feminnity. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston depictures Janie’s feminism through her growth of life from an innocent and vulnerable 17 years old girl who had not yet experienced love to a true women who forgets “all those things (she doesn’t) want to remember, and remember(s) everything (she doesn’t) want to forget” (1) in various of perspectives: Janie’s education and her grandmother’s instigation about marriage; Janie’s misloves with Logan and Jody; and Janie’s love for Tea Cake. Before Janie even learned the concept of “love”, Hurston showed how Janie was raped when she still had her “womanly”
In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston expresses the superior upper hand that men has over women. Hurston uses the main character Jaine, to show how in a male dominant society women can become stronger, more empowered, and have a set main purpose in life other than the stereotypes that are brought upon them.. Despite the fact that women are brought up in a male dominant society, women can often find themselves being able to overcome the typical male dominant obstacles. Women are looked at as weak and very dependent individuals who can’t think for themselves. However, with motivation and learning experiences Hurston suggests that women can overcome anything.
In society having power and being male gives one respect and makes one more desirable than others, whether they would be desired for relationships or economic needs. However, these people with higher status will often as shown throughout history treat their partners of lesser status as less than a person. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, with the characters Janie Starks, Joe Starks, Logan Killicks, and Tea Cake, the history how women were treated, and all the way to how women were treated in current times show examples of people with power taking advantage of people of lower power. Having money will manipulate one's way of thinking.
In “Their Eyes were Watching God”, Zora Neale Hurston takes the reader through Janie’s journey from her childhood to her marriages to Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake. During her marriages, Janie learns more about herself in each setting to reach self-realization. When Janie was a child living in West Florida she could be seen as being naive. While she was growing up she discovered that she wasn’t like the others. There was a picture that was taken of her and the Washburns’ grandchildren
The southern background lead to her creating “unforgettable folk characters and speech” (Lyons 42). Not only does Hurston use language from her life that affects her writing but she also uses many other factors throughout her life that affect her writing as
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston depicts the life of Janie Crawford, and the adversity she endures. During this time, many adhere to traditional gender roles. Men are the authoritative figures who hold positions of power while women take care of the house and the family. Janie’s past husbands, Logan Killicks and Joe Starks, and Nanny force her to maintain this customary role as a wife; however, Tea Cake breaks this mold, showing Janie how to break these rules. From the start, Nanny inculcates in Janie these beliefs and the importance of marriage.
The horizon, the undefinable point at which the sea appears to meet the sky, features rolling waves gently kissing soft, wispy clouds. Each individual defines the exact point of the horizon for himself, and this point changes indefinitely from whichever shore, or perspective, the person views it from. Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie views her horizon, or ultimate objectives, from a myriad of viewpoints, and finally “pull[ed] in her horizon like a great fish-net,” and defined her individuality as a woman who rejects living passively and harnesses life’s opportunities. Initially, Hurston defines a woman as a watcher of ships and dreams on a horizon, and a realist on the shores of life. She writes “[for
In Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston’s voice is extremely unique. She details a young black woman’s journey on her quest to find fulfilling love. Hurston’s style involves metaphoric language, as well as manipulated dialogue. The perspective is interesting because it presents different views and ideas than are typically thought of in literature. Also, the themes in Hurston’s novel differ from the “normal” themes of most male authors.
