In the town of Eatonville, Janie’s Reappearance created chaos and disruption. It all began when Janie returned from her Journey and reconnected with a long lost friend about her love story. At the age of 17, Janie married Logan to please her Nanny, but later left him after nanny died. She than married Jody the mayor; and goes to work with him in the shop, where she met Tea cake. Some time passed on as Jody died, and Janie fell in love with Tea cake, to soon leave Eatonville and travel to Everglades.
Their Eyes were Watching God features Janie, the main character, narrating her life and her growth through the form of storytelling. The author masterfully crafts the piece so that Phoeby and the audience learn of Janie’s hardships and struggles and, as a result, the reader learns about the complications within the relationship between Janie and Joe that culminate into one single paragraph. In Their Eyes were Watching God, the author Zora Hurston uses a plethora of literary devices, including similes, metaphors, and personification, to help develop the main character Janie and on a larger, more universal scale, express the idea that male dominance over females is detrimental for women, as shown by the negative effects on Janie caused by Joe. First, Hurston uses personification to develop the main character Janie. When Hurston writes “The years took all the fight out of Janie’s face.
Literary Analysis The Quest for Independence Has one ever wonder what makes the world’s greatest novels so hard to put down? The ones that make one gasp aloud and bite one’s nails frantically; great novels that leave you on the edge of your seat, like, Romeo and Juliet, The Notebook, and even the Titanic. In each of these novels, they display a story of, the search for independence. In the novel, by Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God the protagonist, Janie Woods, begins her search for independence through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trails and purpose.
Misguided Assumptions Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston, is the story of Janie Crawford, a black woman with beautiful Caucasian-like hair and her pursuit for love. Janie meets Joe Starks while she is married to her first husband Logan Killicks. Janie chooses to leave her first husband to marry Joe with the hope of finding the love she had envisioned as a young girl. Unfortunately, Jody’s love of wealth and power is much stronger than his love for Janie.
In life, all humans are looking for love and respect. Throughout the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie searches her whole life looking for love and finally finds it with Tea Cake. When she was a child, she craved the love from her grandmother but she received mostly a structured life with a lot of responsibility. Her first marriage was to Logan Killicks, which Janie soon realized that she wasn’t married because of love, but because of the amount of work she could do to keep the farm going. Her second marriage was to Joe Starks which lasted twenty years, but she never felt the love even though she had economic security.
The “Rock Pile” by James Baldwin and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston are two stories that examined black male resistance to emasculation. The men in these stories lived in patriarchal societies, and they reaped the benefits of a structure that favored men. In both of these stories, the male characters are dominant figures in their households, and when they felt like their manhood was being attacked, they retaliate viciously. In “Their eyes were watching god”
Who is the real monster? Is it a Frankenstein? Is it his creation, or his creation? Is it Janie, her grandmother, or the man in her life? In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character Victor creates this monster from his obsessive desire.
In the story Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston by giving people control of your life you would not be able to fully live your life. In 1937 West Florida all Janie Crawford wants is to choose her own path in life in a journey of self-discovery and broken hearts. Janie grew up in the care of her nanny who always told her how to live her life her nanny marries her off to an older man named Logan Killicks. He has Janie work hard and treats her like she isn't his wife. She then runs off with Joe Sparks a determined man with dreams everything was going fine until Joe starts to treat her like a trophy wife.
Throughout the book, “Their Eyes Were Watching God '' -Zora Neale Hurtson, there were many themes in the book ranging from love to racial identity. Here I will be explaining three of the themes I've chosen from the various themes presented throughout my reading, racial identity, judgment and love.
Kill A Mockingbird, a novel published in 1960 by Harper Lee, effortlessly depicts the hardships African Americans and people thought of as “different” have endured throughout America's history. The novel tells the story of Scout and Jem, two kids whose father represented a black man falsely accused of rape in court. The story shows the grim reality of the treatment of African Americans during the Jim Crow era because of the author's observations in adolescence, which proved to be a massive influence on the creation of the book. Along with depicting the treatment of different groups in society, the novel also shows the underlying innocence in people, and how it can be exploited by the use of prejudice. To Kill A
One of the universal themes of literature is the idea that children suffer because of the mistakes of an earlier generation. The novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" follows the story of Janie Mae Crawford through her childhood, her turbulent and passionate relationships, and her rejection of the status quo and through correlation of Nanny 's life and Janie 's problems, Hurston develops the theme of children 's tribulations stemming from the teachings and thoughts of an earlier generation. Nanny made a fatal mistake in forcibly pushing her own conclusions about life, based primarily on her own experiences, onto her granddaughter Janie and the cost of the mistake was negatively affecting her relationship with Janie. Nanny lived a hard life and she made a rough conclusion about how to survive in the world for her granddaughter, provoked by fear. " Ah can’t die easy thinkin’ maybe de menfolks white or black is makin’ a spit cup outa you: Have some sympathy fuh me.
Character The protagonist in the story is the son of a priest. He is very fearful and gets easily frightened. The main character would always get a stronger punishment than both of his brothers. After he got used to going to the dead houses and seeing all the weird items he’s seen, he has stopped getting scared.
Porch. A covered shelter projecting in front of the entrance of a building. This inanimate object served to develop various themes throughout the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. She reveals the theme of jealousy and envy, gender inequality and a sense of community with the help of the porch.
Most teenagers struggle with finding themselves. Sometimes, this struggle continues for their entire life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston emphasizes that life-long battle. She shows her readers that everyone toils with finding themselves and that loving someone won’t always help them find their identity. She uses many symbols to help describe this struggle.
In order for a person to become a strong and developed individual, they have to meet the wrong people first and learn from their mistakes. People develop at different times from different experiences in their lives, but those different times and journeys are what make an individual unique. A young girl named Janie comes further than the world would’ve seen over many years due to meeting the wrong people. The unfortunate events she experienced only lead her to the development of herself as a woman later in her life. Janie starts off her life with a curveball getting married at a young age and from their on learns to dodge any obstacle thrown her way.
