Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay

through his erratic behavior that deconstructs Janie’s past and allows her to develop an identity in order to show the solution for Africans to overcome a system of injustice through finding happiness and security within themselves. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie, the female protagonist, undergoes a journey to freedom, which she first believes she can find through marriage. Her first two marriages prove to be oppressive, until she meets a man named Tea Cake. Eventually Janie runs away with Tea

In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God introduced many symbolic elements; however, the most prominent was mules. Throughout the whole novel, mules remained a constant besides in her marriage with Tea Cake. Mules first appear with Janine's Nanny discussing the level of power white and Black people have, "'De nigger woman is de mule uh de world.."'(pg. 14) The book states that white men have the power and black males have power over their women. Mules are known as a dumb animal

In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie’s choice of being with Tea Cake is a poor choice due to Tea Cake raising Janie’s fear and being abusive, even though he shows love and care towards Janie. Towards the beginning of Tea Cake and Janie’s marriage, Janie’s flashback shows Tea Cake bringing out Janie’s fear and insecurities. Hurston writes, “That was when she found out her two hundred dollars was gone” (Hurston 118), and wrote about Annie Tyler. The quote shows Tea Cake leaving

“Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the author Zora Neale Hurston used a certain dialect and language to help bring to life the social status’ and personalities of each of her characters. The dialect helps compare and contrast each of the characters that Janie, the main character, interacts with. The dialect shown throughout the novel will help the reader understand the level of education and upbringing of the characters as well as bringing the story to life. In “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Hurston

Though it is not one of the main themes in the novel, poverty and its effects on people can be seen abundantly in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The demonstration of poverty that I chose to discuss is how wealth causes a person to act toward others. The most notable examples are Janie’s three husbands, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake, and the way they treat Janie. In the novel, the wealthier a man is, the more power he has over people and the more entitled he feels.

When we finished reading this excerpt from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, we were meant to understand on how Janie would see love by the pear tree. In this novel, the author uses an array of rhetorical devices to characterize marriage and what love really means under Janie’s eyes. At the beginning of the passage, Hurston uses personification in lines 2-3 and a hyperbole in lines 3-4. In lines 2-3 he states,”spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree...” Hurston

The movie, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” portrays Janie’s interactions with all the other characters, including the town, in a different manner than Zora Neale Hurston does. Oprah Winfrey completely altered the relationships between Janie and the other characters in the movie, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Oprah demolished Zora Neale Hurston’s work when she changed the dynamics of Eatonville by turning a low wealth rural town into a few cabins in the woods with no class whatsoever.         Janie’s

Zora Neale Hurston’s book Their Eyes Were Watching God explains the journey of Janie Crawford’s life. Janie experiences abuse, sacrifice, and true love throughout different situations in the book. As she goes through each circumstance of life, Janie gains confidence and courage that she does not have in the beginning of the story. Janie’s chief accomplishments in the book are finding freedom and independence despite the situations in which she has to overcome loss and disaster, has to prove her worth

Despite appearing as a quest for love and a fulfilling relationship with a partner, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God follows Janie Crawford and her search for identity. Janie’s story begins when she first idealizes the alluring beauty of the reciprocal relation between the bee and the pear tree that sets her to seek the same level of reciprocity with a partner. However, by experiencing and struggling through three relationships, Janie learns to use her voice for her independence

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie is on a quest throughout the novel because she overcomes difficulties in the form of social prejudice, sexism, and racism in order to achieve self-worth and self-knowledge. This directly corresponds with Foster’s criterion of the five essential components a quest involves. Their Eyes Were Watching God chronicles the life of an African American woman named Janie Crawford in terms of her marriages to three men during