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Analysis Of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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During the past recent years, women have always had it tough with men. As in the story of Janie in the book called “Their eyes were watching God”, an author named Zora Neale Hurston, wrote about a woman, not just any woman, but a woman who is described as an African American, during the early 1900s, at the age of sixteen. In her young age, she begins to be in the battle of searching for true love, which is up to her to know whether the love she is encountered with, in between the different men she meets throughout the story, is actually real love. But what is the meaning of true love? Everyone can come up with many characteristics from their own opinion of what love really is however, so much confusion is set up in all individuals way of thinking, …show more content…

The couple has children of their own, which are play mates for Janie, leading to the unrealization of Janie’s real skin color, until she sees a photograph of her colored family. Her grandmother then decides to buy her own land and house, so it can be better for Janie, according to her. After Janie turns sixteen, she is experiencing many sensations of a teenage girl, meaning the want of love, hormones, couriosity and sexuallity. Although, she only thinks about the sorts of things while being under a tree with a bee pollinating a blossom, she describes it as love. She meets a boy, and begins to have the “love feelings” and kisses the boy, however she gets caught by her grandmother and decides that she wants to marry her to a older man named Logan Killicks, and so she did. After, she realizes that she does not love Logan, she confronts her grandmother and tells her how she is feels about him, however Nanny advices her to be patient and that love will appear as flies by. Her grandmother dies and Janie leaves Logan after he threatened her to kill her with an axe, then runs away with another man named Joe Starks and got married. After their marriage, at first it’s all wonderful until Joe becomes a mayor and becomes more strict and demanding, therefore their marriage falls apart as well throughout the years and Joe dies because of kidney failure. After Joe’s death, she enjoys her …show more content…

The ethnicity also contributes to the story, because the story has more African American characters and they have their own beliefs and their way of thinking, which is where culture comes next. The reason why those factors are important, is because it helps you understand the article called “Domestic Violence in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God : A Feminist Reading”, in this article, its main point is about domestic violence. Janie is a sweet girl and she is sort of bullied in most parts of the novel. As a young girl, she is bullied by some African American kids, then she is beaten by the men that she is married to. All three men, have one specific factor that they all have in common, which is to be the “man of the house” and beat their wife. You see, “back in the day” the men were like this, especially more in the African American ethnicity. Although Janie is battling through domestic violence and mistreat, she still manages to get passed through all her spouse’s mistreat, making this book about feminism. Janie does try to defend herself by being a feminist, such as standing up to her husbands sometimes, even if it means getting mistreated again. Janie is actually strong, but weak at the same time. Her strengths come from her patience, Janie is actually well known to have patience to

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