Postag197v1 : A Tale Of Perspectives

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston describes the horizon as possibilities and opportunities. When the story starts out Janie’s perception of the horizon changes first from desire for love to the need of love, and ultimately the feeling of contentment towards love to show Janie maturing throughout the novel.

Often in literature, the author sets the main character on a physical journey to divert attention away from the main character’s spiritual journey. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, goes on a physical journey that not only challenges her sense of self, but also is vital in her life-long spiritual journey to personal liberation and self-empowerment. Janie’s relationships mark Janie’s migration toward fulfilling Hurston’s purpose of the piece: Janie becoming empowered and finds personal liberation. Hurston proves Janie’s physical journey plays a central role as Janie completes her spiritual quest to personal liberation and self-empowerment.

Zora Neale Hurston had an intriguing life, from surviving a hurricane in the Bahamas to having an affair with a man twenty years her junior. She used these experiences to write a bildungsroman novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, about the colorful life of Janie Mae Crawford. Though the book is guised as a quest for love, the dialogues between the characters demonstrate that it is actually about Janie’s journey to learn how to not adhere to societal expectation.

Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God follows protagonist Janie Mae Crawford’s journey into womanhood and her ultimate quest for self-discovery. Having to abruptly transition from childhood to adulthood at the age of sixteen, the story demonstrates Janie’s eternal struggle to find her own voice and realize her dreams through three marriages and a lifetime of hardships that come about from being a black woman in America in the early 20th century. Throughout the novel, Hurston uses powerful metaphors helping to “unify” (as Henry Louis Gates Jr. puts it) the novel’s themes and narrative; thus providing a greater understanding of Janie’s quest for selfhood. There are three significant metaphors in the novel that achieve this unity: the

     In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the reader is given a particular glimpse into Janie's life with reference to the men she has known.  Janie's three men are all very different, yet they were all Janie's husband at one point in her life.  Although they all behaved differently, in lifestyle as well as their relationship with Janie, they all shared certain similarities.

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie’s journey towards spiritual enlightenment and her development of individuality, largely through Janie’s relationships with others. Hurston uses the themes of power, control, abuse, and respect, in Janie’s relationships with Nanny, Killicks, Starks, and Tea Cake, to effectively illustrate how relationships impact identity and self-growth.

In conclusion, In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, the audience watches Janie enter a period of self-discovery. When Janie gains this power of freedom, she realizes she craves something different from what society had told her she would want; What we feel inwardly to be true, society seeks to take that truth away. With this experience an internal and external

In a world full of symbols, perspective can have a huge influence on how many interpret those experiences. Physical items and a people themselves can have a greater impact on a decision or actions a person may make. When Zora Neale Hurston was a kid, she a had a type of personality that would capture the eyes of many. At thirteen her childhood ended when her mother passed away from a heart attack. In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, " Their Eyes Were Watching God", the author uses symbols to convey the message of seeking real love and self-actualization. In her book, there is a parallel between Janie, her main character, and herself. For example, living the same town, Zora, father helping to build Eatonville, and the feisty personality. With every

Despite the rather inherent significance of a protagonist in a literary work, there are certain novels in which a second character plays the pivotal role. This character, who often serves as a means of support and counsel, is known as a confidante. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, author Zora Neale Hurston writes from the perspective of protagonist Janie Crawford, as told to her confidante, Pheoby Watson. In doing so, Hurston seeks to differentiate between the intolerance of society and the comfort and relief that a trusted friend can bring. Pheoby is also used as a mirror of sorts. Throughout Janie’s journey, the rhetorical appeals, symbols, and themes that Hurston uses Pheoby’s character to represent enable the story to be both reliable and relatable, and portray Janie in a more positive light.

A perfect life doesn’t exist. As much as Janie lived a spoiled life from her Nanny and married men who provided her a pampered life, Janie’s lifestyle is as imperfect as the other women next door. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she depicts the life of Janie as imperfect, utilizing the rhetorical strategies of dialect, pathos, and irony.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a historical fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini, and “Journey Into the Interior”, a poem by Theodore Roethke, have thematic similarities in that both works share the message that one must go through hardship in order to discover oneself. However, Hosseini develops the theme through his characterization of his book’s protagonist, Miriam, while Roethke employs metaphors and vivid imagery to establish the common theme.

The books we read today, while they may be excellent stories, have so many hidden aspects that are often missed if you don’t look through the right lens. Whether it's looking at a novel from a feminist perspective, or examining a short essay with a biographical perspective in mind, it’s almost impossible to fully understand the main themes and messages in a novel without using a lens to take a closer look. In Albert Camus’ “The Stranger,” a psychological lens is the best way to view the novel, as it explains the personality of the main character, Meursault, and reveals the reasoning of why he killed the arab. Although Albert Camus never labelled himself as an Existentialist or an absurdist, his works, including The Stranger, showcase many

Amory’s European heritage enhances his individuality, but also his isolation. His egotism, a result of the special education and spirit his mother instilled in him, proves to be the main theme of the book, much like it is the main theme of American life. He describes himself as a “boy marked for glory,” longing for material wealth, but his success becomes his goal. He sees himself as superior, and this causes much of his self-centeredness. He blatantly disregards his peers for not showing the same brand of otherness as he does, with the exception of a few such as Tom, Burne, and Dick.

Through this journey he is able to see from many perspectives; He is able to see the circles of hell as not only a student, but also a lover and a sinner. He is a poet who is able to go though a journey and speak to legends that are enduring endless pain in different levels of hell. Through the circles and levels of hell, there are endless examples of pre-history

Reader Beware: read but one preface, or the perspective and imaginative aspect of this tale will be forever lost...