Thesis statement: Zora Neale Hurston had a belief that in relationships men tried to control women. "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Folk Speech and Figurative Language." Http://edsitement.neh.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 May 2016 This article is talking about how Hurston use of folkloric language in the passage Their Eyes Were Watching God shows how the female character in the book tries to develop herself without the aid of a man. The analytical article states that the main character dreaded her marriages that she was in. the article stated that Hurston’s creative literary style combined folkloric language and literary techniques. She used these techniques to show the readers the lives that women had. The author of the article manifest that every women …show more content…
Each individual article analyzes the book as how the main character Janie dealt with her marriages. The articles analyzes how the main character found out that marriage didn’t compel love. The reasoning was that male dominance affected the relationship between the main character and the husbands she was married with. Hurston’s feminist views manifested the relationship between a man and a women in her style of writing. "Heroism or Weakness? ." Stone. Professor Kathy Freeman, n.d. Web. 03 May 2016. This article analytically manifest the purpose of the book. Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God conveyed the life of the main character. The main character was a young African American women that yearned to be the owner of her own life. However Hurston manifested in the book that the main character wanted to find independence, but the main character is shocked by the fact she cannot be independent. She cannot find the independence she wants because a man will always define her. Hurston structured the book to show that the dominance of the male figure, and how her husband ultimately controls her actions. Mendoza-Marroquin