Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

Companionship is a fundamental necessity for human beings to function. People thrive off of social interactions and without companionship, loneliness and alienation would prevail. Everyone wants the same things in life which are love, social acceptance and companionship, in the hope that once these things are obtained one will feel complete. In the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, readers witness the characters struggle to find their identity while also trying to meet the need for partnership. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, readers see the main character Janie, grow as a women while showing that marriage does not always mean love and that until

Throughout life, everybody makes sacrifices that may become more beneficial to him or in ways they could not foresee. A sacrifice may be simply giving up an object or giving up something deeper in meaning. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a prime example of a book that reflects this theme. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, struggles to figure out her identity and what she desires in life. As she matures in her relationships and in life, she learns to make sacrifices in order to seek what she really needs. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston illuminates Janie’s values and the text’s emphasis on self-actualization is demonstrated through Janie leaving stability with Logan to marry Joe,

Feminism and gender equality is one of the most important issues of society today, and the debate dates back much farther than Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. To analyze Janie’s existence as a feminist or anti-feminist character requires a potential critic to look at her relationships and her reactions to those relationships throughout the novel. Trudier Harris claims that Janie is “questing after a kind of worship.” This statement is accurate only up until a certain point in her life, until Janie’s “quest” becomes her seeking equality with her partner. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s main goal pertaining to her romantic relationships undergoes multiple changes from her original goal of a type of worship to a goal to maintain an equal relationship with her husband.

     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.

Throughout the development of the settlement of African Americans in America, they have gone through many different struggles and have come a long way from their nasty beginnings of slavery in America to modernized 2015 where African Americans have the same amount of rights that anyone else that is born in the country has. Both African American men and woman have struggled incessantly through time but each gender has had their individual struggles. Zora Neale Hurston portrays this with exquisite clarity in the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” sometimes using the imagery of animals to explain the hardships and adversity that African Americans had to overcome. She perfectly exemplifies how black woman in particular were treated as opposed to black men and what the expectations were that society had for them both.

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Mae Crawford deals with her loss of self and rediscovering herself through symbols that describe each of her relationships. After Janie discovers what she thinks love is, she undergoes three marriages that define her idea of love through the way her husbands treat her and the recurring symbols that appear in each one. These relationships range from passionless to abusive to positive and inseparable. The symbols act as either a help or a hindrance to her journey of realizing what love is. As Janie journeys to find herself, the pear tree, the gate, her hair, and her voice symbolize each of her relationships and the things she learns about herself as she discovers what authentic love and autonomy truly means.

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Zora Neale Hurston writes about a young girl named Janie who is stuck between the reality of love and the quixotic ideas of what love could be. In the book, Janie is forced to marry an older man due to her nanny's standards set on her security and safety. Janie's first marriage quickly ended after a charming man with the name of Joe Starks swept her off of her feet and made her realize what she's really worth. Despite of her initial attraction to Joe, both marriages end up making Janie unhappy and Unsatisfied.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston is showing how one woman, Janie, has a realization that the societal views are wrong and how she wants to be able to marry whoever she wants to. Hurston does this by showing Janie’s feelings of each marriage. In Janie’s society women are judged by the men that they marry. Throughout the course of the book Janie marries different men and slowly realizes that she does not agree with the societal views and wants to marry whomever she wants to.

Love plays a very important role in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. Janie thought of love just as she thought of the elements of springtime: Sunny days, bright skies, and a bee pollinating pear tree blossoms. She searched far and wide for this kind of perfect love. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” mainly referred to how Janie discovered her identity and the true meaning of love from her past three marital experiences. However throughout all of her marriages, she became independent and lost the desire to be attached to a man. Hurston used this to show Janie 's progression as a woman.

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Research Paper In Their Eyes Were Watching God, African Americans weren’t treated equally, and were looked at as slaves even though slavery had already been abolished. Women were looking for wealthy men to take care of them. Janie, is seeking to find out what true love is and through her experiences in her three different types of marriages, she eventually attains her goal. She ends up discovering who she is as a person, and what the most important components are that define her and make up her life.

In the story Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, the main character Janie dream is to attain unconditional, fulfilling and true love. Throughout her life she experiences different types of love. As a result from her quest to find her desired love Janie’s gains personal freedom and independence, this makes her the true heroine of this novel. Janie searches for the love she always wanted, the one that is represented by the marriage between a bee and a blossom on the pear tree that stood in Nanny 's backyard. All Janie wants is to find true love and independence in her life.

Who has power? In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, men have the upper hand. while the women did not and were seen more as an obeying pet. Throughout the book Zora Hurston show men dominating Janie (main character) through her three marriages. Janie 's first husband, Logan Killicks, uses his power to use her as a worker. Janie 's second husband, Joe Starks, uses his power on Janie to make her obey him and is not allowed to talk to other men. Now Janie 's last Husband, Teacake, uses his power to make Janie follow him wherever he goes. Why would Hurston portray men as powerful and women as powerless? Is it because this is the way our society depicts men? That men should be tough, fearless, and strong. Creating a tough interior

Everyone in the world today whether is be now or later on in your life, hopes to find a special someone that can spent the rest on their life with and fall in love as well. In the Novel, Their eyes were watching god written by Zora Neal Hurston, this is exactly what the main character Janie goal is. Janie encounters three different man she hopes to achieve her life goals and fall in love with. Each relationship that she experiences differs due to the different cultural context present or brought by each man. The relationship that stands out the most to me is her second relationship with Joe Starks(Jody). Janie is introduced to Jody when she is working outside and see him walking past. She is instantly faltered, and lets down her long hair to show she in interested in him. Jody notices her, and makes his feeling towards her apparent. He tells her to meet him the next morning, if she is interested to start a new life with him. The next morning, she meets him in the morning, and this begins their new relationship together. In this novel, Jody surrounds Janie with a cultural context containing a lack of respect, companionship and authority in marriage which restricts janie from truly expressing her love for him.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses sophisticated symbols to illustrate important themes in the novel such as love, relationships, individuality, and dreams/possibilities. The choices made by Janie Crawford can be linked to those underlying themes. When she was younger, Janie aspired to find a romantic relationship as ideal as the one between the bee and the pear tree. She tried to find that in her marriage with Logan Killicks, however, she rapidly became discontent so she eloped with Jody Starks in whom she saw a new horizon. She later realizes that Jody was not the person she thought he was so after his death, she meets and marries Tea Cake who becomes the bee to her pear tree.

In the novel, Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston there are many hidden symbols. The most important and strongest is the horizon, a glorious symbol portraying Janie’s dream, a lifelong search for true love and happiness. The horizon is created through Janie’s tough experiences seeking to find the future.