Their Eyes Were Watching God Book Report

Tea Cake returns home after Janie has a panic attack regarding the two hundred dollars she thought he stole. She assumed he had run off, but he returned with it. This sets up trust between the two parties. Additionally, there is understanding between the two of them, as Tea Cake accepts that she wishes to accompany him to future events. This also sets them up to spend time with each other instead of Janie being isolated like she was with Jody.

Janie takes each person she is close to and all the situations her life brings to her forms her own opinions on love. Janie grows from a dreamy child

Oprah’s movie did Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, an injustice when Oprah changed the entire purpose of the book. The changes made to characters, relationships, and the effects of symbolism makes the story unrecognizable. Their Eyes Were Watching God transforms into a love story and the title changes which alters the entire plot, even some settings change. Oprah truly slaughtered a work of art and her ignorance of the meaning of Their Eyes Were Watching God shows in the movie.

Janie could not indulge in the same things as normal people because Joe served as an impediment to her. The movie gave her more power to do the things that she wanted to do than the book did.

Throughout Janie’s relationship with her next husband, Joe, she continued to keep her strong voice but showed weakness emotionally. Speaking of "change and chance", Janie was immediately attracted to Joe Starks. This is exactly what Janie wanted at the time: a change from her life with Logan and a second chance at life and love. But the change and chance that Joe was speaking of was very different than what Janie wanted or expected. He was not looking for love or a companion, but instead wanted to use Janie to promote his image as a leader for his new plans to start a black community. Janie soon realized this after it was too late. Her life with Joe was horrible. Joe rarely said a word to her or even looked at her

Tea Cake loved Janie so much that he would rather himself get hurt than her, which is something Janie had never experienced: true love. Without Tea Cake’s role in Janie’s life she would have never experienced true love and actual happiness. Tea Cake is a mysterious man from the

The novel and the movie share many similarities.The book and the novel share the same problems. A example johnny and pony run away since johnny killed bob.In both johnny gets injured badly and dies.

As a young woman, Janie wanted love, true love. In the beginning of the novel and Janie 's journey, she is under a blossoming pear tree where she spends most of her days. She is watching the bees fly to the blossoms, when she has an epiphany. “So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then

All through the novel Janie travels through valuable life experiences allowing her to grow as a woman. Janie at first has a difficult time understanding her needs rather than wants, but as she continues to experience new situations she realizes she values respect. Janie’s first two marriages turned out to be tragic mistakes, but with each marriage Janie gained something valuable. When Janie is disrespected in her second marriage with Joe Starks, he publicly humiliates her, disrespecting her as a wife and woman. This experience forced Janie to come out of her comfort zone and stand up for herself.

Yes, Janie grows and develops in the story by making her own decisions and finding out who she is. For example in the beginning she listened to everything people told her to do with her life. In the middle of the book when she married Joe Starks and made her own decision. After

Janie’s first marriage is a stepping stone to finding her own role because it shows her what her life shouldn’t be like and it encourages her to find a new path while she still can. She lives as a homemaker who cooks and cleans, but that role doesn’t suit her. Janie’s goal is not to be a homemaker, a wife, or a mother no matter how much she believes it at the beginning of the novel. Her dream is to be free from the submission that she has lived with her entire life. Janie wants to be free more than she wants love, which can easily be seen when she shoots Tea Cake, her true love, to protect

Joe told Janie to put a head rag on as the mayor’s wife. She refused because she thought it would make her look like an old woman. However, in the book, she did not refuse to put the head rag on. In the book, when Joe told Janie “put this head rag on,” she puts it on because she always respects her husband. “What and wrap my head up like a old woman? How come?” Janie asked, “Cause I done told you too! You are the mayor’s wife” (Harpo). In the movie, Janie did not like being the mayor’s wife and she did not like wearing the head rag that she hated. However, in the book, she wore the head rag in respect of Joe. In the movie, when Joe went to buy more land, Janie went with him. In the book, she did not go with him to buy more land. In the movie, Joe told Janie, “Imma buy a hundred acres, then imma buy a hundred and four and I will sell the land we do not need to newcomers, Imma buy you your very own train card and we gonna criss cross this country first class” (Harpo). Joe and Janie also owned a store together and when he dies later in life, Janie decides not to sell the store in the movie. However, in the book she decided to sell the store because she did not want the townspeople to compare her husband Joe with her new boyfriend Tea Cake. In the book and the movie, after Joe is dead, Janie decided to run off with Tea Cake. Janie and Joe’s relationship changed when Oprah

Janie’s determination to find love is a major theme in the movie, Their Eyes Were Watching God. As Janie is continuously hurt by her different husbands, she still doesn’t give up and eventually finds the love she desires. When Janie was forced to marry her first husband, Logan Killicks, she realized that she wasn’t happy and was desperate to leave him. One day a man by the name of Joe Sparks persuades her into running off with him to build a town. Janie thought that Joe was the perfect husband until she realized how controlling and demanding he turns out to be. When Janie tries to leave, Mr. Sparks says, “All you’ll end up is somebody’s good time and then tossed in the ditch.” He says this to make her think feel worthless. Janie goes back to

They see a wide social gap between Tea Cake and Janie. They trust Janie has not grieved sufficiently long for Joe. At last, they are stunned that she has brought up with a more youthful man and is acting like some young lady with him, including not going to church any

At first Janie believes she can make herself happy in any situation. Later on she realizes that if a man is not willing to give her what she wants in a relationship that she will just leave him. She begins as a very dependent character, but then she grows confidence and courage throughout the book.