Compare And Contrast Their Eyes Were Watching God

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author, Zora Neale Hurston, attempts to bring into light problems caused by prejudice. However, as she tries to show examples of inequality through various character relationships, examples of equality are revealed through other relationships. Janie, the novel's main character, encounters both inequality and equality through the treatment she receives during her three marriages.

In the novel, Janie’s focus was her spiritual journey. She was able to experience love as well as struggles black women went through during this time. Overall the book was about her personal growth. The movie was centered around her relationship with Tea Cake. This made Janie seem weak and vulnerable, while the novel represented her as brave and

Oprah’s film takes the only pure relationship in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and makes it impure. In Hurston’s novel, Janie’s only true friend, Pheoby, defends her against the porch sitters because the women talk down about Janie. “‘Anyhow, what you ever know her to do so bad as y’all make out?...Y’all makes me tired. De way you talkin’ you’d think de folks in dis town didn’t do nothin’ in de bed ‘cept praise de lawd…’” (Hurston 4). The way Pheoby defends Janie shows the purity of their friendship

 Overtime, no matter what kind of circumstance set up towards the term superiority, the meaning of it being expressed has not changed. It has not been expressed differently between any kind of man, even during the early 1900s era where they claimed their dominance over women. Women were put through the same overwhelming motive of repression that man (regardless of the race) had attempted to suffocate them with. It is in the hands of a women on how they take the repression that has been brought upon them by man. Portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is an African American women who endures the superiority of man. As an African American women she is brought up to know when she is allowed to do as she wants and when she is not. She exemplifies the standard view that society has set up for a male to have the last word in the way a female must live their life. Unlike a women who has been pampered her whole life to do as she wants whenever she wants as brought to us by Edna in The Awakening by Kate Chopin. The two must try to coexist within the superiority brought by man.

Throughout a fair part of Zora Neal Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s low class create problems when it comes to men. She lives with men she does not love because they give her the financial stability she cannot have yet on her own. Janie marries Logan Killicks at a young age even though she does not want to

In the book Hurston focused on sharing Janie’s journey and how her thoughts morphed as she aged and met other people. However, Winfrey produced it as a love story between Janie and Tea Cake. “It was

In the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God, Oprah Winfrey manipulates events that happened in the book by Zora Neale Hurston. Oprah morphs many relationships in the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God. She changes the role of gender, and also makes changes in Janie’s character strength. Oprah also changes the symbolism in the movie to where some important symbols in the book change to less important roles. Oprah changes many important events in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, when she makes the movie.

When Oprah Winfrey made the movie, “Their Eyes were Watching God,” she altered Janie’s relationships from the book that Zora Hurston had written. Oprah gives Janie strengths in the movie that she never had in the book. Oprah alters the relationships that Janie had and made every one different. The changes that Oprah made in the movie made Hurston’s book look bad.

The story ‘their eyes were watching god’ is about Janie Crawford and her search for love in a world where women were denied everything including love and their voice. She is portrayed as a heroine, who undergoes through many disappointments in search of unconditional and fulfilling love. Moreover, she is a heroine following her desire to gain autonomy in a gender biased society. The novel also talks about the different types of love that Janie has experienced and how this has shaped her life as an independent woman. A lot of literary devices, including symbolism, the view of the narrator, and imagery are used to create a picture of Janie and her circumstances. Analysis of the book provides a picture of how women today struggle in search of true love amidst a distrustful society and the delicate balance between

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Carrie Diaries by Amy Harris are two sources that both share many similarities and dissimilarities. Their Eyes Were Watching God followed the story of a young African American girl named Janie. She was taught that marriage is her only goal in life as a woman, and that marriage was the only thing in her future. On the other hand, The Carrie Diaries is about a girl and her friends navigating through the complicated high school life. Another All three sources focuses on and displays the idea of women depending on men.

She is trying to indicate that women are the weaker sex and for her to have black skin makes it even worse. But Janie feels like she should go off and be with just anyone because she does not think her granny is right about who she should

The overall theme of Their Eyes Were Watching God, a journey, was desolated by Oprah Winfrey who morphed it into a love story. Oprah perceived the book to have to do with Janie Crawford going through life to find love and not a journey of Janie going through her life and experiencing various events. “’…it was one of the most beautiful, poignant love stories I’ve ever read’” (Dir. Darnell). Oprah misconceived the theme when reading and portrayed the theme of her movie to encase love and Janie’s progress for love. “Oprah’s rendition of Their Eyes Were Watching God reduces the novel’s complexities of race, gender, and history to pretty costumes, lush backgrounds, and sexy bodies” (Ceptus). The change in theme creates an overall change in the movie, making it into a movie of love and romance and takes the true meaning away from the story in the book. Oprah carelessly produced this movie, distorting the theme, focusing it on Janie and her searching for love as opposed to her journey and experiences through life.

The book I am reading is “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. The first chapter is very interesting because it shows how envy the residents are and gives background history of marriage. The setting takes place in Southern Town In the 1800’s. A woman called Janie Starks comes down the main, while a group of resident gathered in Pheoby Watson Porch, talking about her muddy overall. The women residents envy her beauty and her long hair. They way the women residents talk about Janie can tell how jealous they are by her and the way the envy her. The residents talk about how Janie left the town with the younger man named Tea Cake and he took her money and left her for a younger women. Janie explains to Phoebe her best friend in Eatonville,

Texts are often written to reflect on the world and to vocalise concerns from different eras in time. While some texts have become severely outdated due to the rapidly changing nature of modern culture, readers are still acknowledging these concerns, developing their own moral views and utilising them in present day. Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God follow complex characters that recognise and rebel against their restrictive communities and search for a better future for themselves. Ghosh and Hurston both use their novels to provoke readers to assess the values of modern society by exploring the expectations of women from different cultural and religious backgrounds and the impact of a rigid

When reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, I made an instant connection to the book. The book’s dialogue was not written in correct English; it is written using country slang. At first, it was hard to read, without having to reread it or without having to read it aloud, but I caught on as I kept reading. Pheoby, a character who can be considered as being “two-faced”, reminds me of people my age. Before the story started coming from one perspective, it did not focus on just one character. Pheoby and a few other women were sitting on their porch talking about Janie. Janie was a woman, who was criticized by Pheoby and her friends for leaving the town with a youthful man and her long, fine hair. Most young adults and even some older women are condemned