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    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 and displays how language forms an identity. The route towards

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    Gabrielle Topping July 30, 2017 AP Literature Assignment 2 Zora Neale Hurston’s use of language in Their Eyes Were Watching God effectively creates mood, establishes characterization, and develops themes throughout the novel. Ever since Tea Cake, Janie’s third husband was bitten by a rabid dog, his behavior has been threatening towards Janie’s life. When he points a gun at her, attempting to shoot her, Janie is left with no choice. She aims her rifle at her disease-stricken husband

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    In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, Hurston, the author uses figurative language to compose images to express her theories on love and freedom and how they affect happiness. Janie Mae Crawford struggles to find the love freedom she has longed for her whole life and finally receives it, due to the loss of Jody Starks and the discovery of Tea Cake. Janie is telling the story of her life to her friend Phoebe and explaining all of the events that lead up to her return to the

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    author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It tells the story of a young Janie Crawford who goes through life experiencing several different roller coasters of emotions, three of marriages, and the journey of discovering who she is as a woman. A lot of Janie’s story is told by elaborating on the transcendentalist aspects of her life. Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston expresses a lot of transcendentalist views by developing the characters, plot, setting, and figurative language. By doing so

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    Tah’jai Graves Mr. Weber Ap Language 26 January 2016 Their eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston used elements of folk culture as well as figurative language to create a sense of a community, delineate character, and create atmosphere in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She used these tools to her advantage to draw the reader in to believe that they were not just reading the book, but actually experiencing the book as the story progressed, such as if you were in the book with the characters

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    In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she uses figurative language to show how people in Janie’s life are judgemental of her, from being judged on her appearance to being judged on her life. At the very opening of the novel the author shows that Janie’s entrance into the story was even judged, this foreshadows judgement throughout the novel. “But now the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and humans. They become lords of sound and lesser things. They

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    In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God uses figurative language to demonstrate that love is not always how it seams. Janie Crawford is a young woman trying to find her voice or the first time but counters many obstacles growing up as a child to an adult. Zora Neale Hurston through a world of mss leading of love as well as sadness. The author uses different types of figurative language to describe Janies fairy tail love is not what it really seems to be. Love is not how it always

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    Voice and Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God      In one way or another, every person has felt repressed at some stage during their lives. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a story about one woman's quest to free herself from repression and explore her own identity; this is the story of Janie Crawford and her journey for self-knowledge and fulfillment.  Janie transforms many times as she undergoes the process of self-discovery as she changes through her experiences with three completely

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God, a Unique American Narrative Their Eyes Were Watching God, a 1937 novel by influential Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, examines the historical, cultural, and social foundations of African-American life by following the life of an African-American woman in the US South. In her examination of these foundations, Hurston builds validity and affirmation for black Southern culture by beautifully portraying the life of the Black Southern community in the Antebellum

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    Slang: a type of language that consists of words that are regarded as informal, and is most common in speech, and is typically restricted to a particular context or group of people. Nearly everyday, even without noticing it, most people use slang in their speech on a daily basis. How people speak can be interpreted very differently to listeners depending on their background. Many areas have their own type of speech that usually, only people who come from that background will understand. After reading

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