Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie

The world of Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God was one of oppression and disappointment. She left the world of her suffocating grandmother to live with a man whom she did not love, and in fact did not even know. She then left him to marry another man who offered her wealth in terms of material possessions but left her in utter spiritual poverty. After her second husband's death, she claims responsibility and control of her own life, and through her shared love with her new husband, Teacake, she is able to overcome her status of oppression. Zora Neale Hurston artfully and effectively shows this victory over oppression throughout the book through her use of

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie has allowed us to better understand the restraints that women in society had to deal with in a male dominated society. Her marriage with Logan Killicks consisted of dull, daily routines.  Wedding herself to Joe Starks brought her closer to others, than to herself.  In her final marriage to Vergible Woods, also known as Tea Cake, she finally learned how to live her life on her own.  In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie suffered through many difficult situations that eventually enabled her to grow into an independent person.

People grow and develop at different rates. The factors that heavily influence a person's growth are heredity and environment. The people you meet and the experiences you have are very important in what makes a person who he/she is. Janie develops as a woman with the three marriages she has. In each marriage she learns precious lessons, has increasingly better relationships, and realizes how a person is to live his/her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie's marriages to Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake are the most vital elements in her growth as a woman.

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.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist, Janie, endures two marriages before finding true love. In each of Janie’s marriages, a particular article of clothing is used to symbolically reflect, not only her attitude at different phases in her life, but how she is treated in each relationship.

In the novel,  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there are many recurring images, one of the most important images is Janie’s hair which represents her power strength, identity, her freedom,  and life experience. Her hair also is the cause of some conflicts like with Logan, Jody, and Tea Cake and helps develops who Janie is as character by showing us what she wants throughout this whole story.

In both Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” and novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the focus is on women who want better lives but face difficult struggles before gaining them. The difficulties involving men which Janie and Delia incur result from or are exacerbated by the intersection of their class, race, and gender, which restrict each woman for a large part of her life from gaining her independence.

In literature, characters encounter and react to obstacles created by environmental changes. To successfully navigate these changes, characters must gain awareness of their environments and gain the power to effectively take action. Thus, Janie most successfully adjusts to different environments because she develops self-awareness, attains power, and initiates action; she takes action more efficiently than Young Ju, and she is more self-aware of her circumstances than the Hunger Artist.

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a novel where Janie tells her whole story from childhood up to the death of Tea Cake. Some important details that show feminism are when Janie refused to work in the field with her first husband and also how Joe was very dominant and sometimes abusive in her marriage. I believe “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a feminist novel because Janie did not follow the stereotypical of a woman during her time.

Oprah Winfrey is a woman with power; power to mess up the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in her own movie interpretation of the same name. By turning this story of a woman finding herself into a love story, many key points of the plot were left out. Character motifs and morals also dramatically changed.

Topic 2: Compare/contrast Janie in Hurston 's Their Eyes Were Watching God & Edna in Chopin 's The Awakening in terms of conformity within a male-dominated society. (four page minimum)

Love and Marriage Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a novel about a Southern black woman and her experiences through life. Janie, the main character, is forced at a young age by her grandmother, into an arranged marriage with a man named Logan.

Throughout the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the plot was focused on both Janie's series of romantic relationships as well as on Janie's individual quest for self-fulfillment and spiritual nourishment. In the novel, Janie's marriages are what most greatly impact her individual quest, but in doing so they actually force Janie to become aware of what it is that she wants for herself as an individual. Janie's experiences within her marriages, are what drive her to recognize that what she most actively seeks is a voice for herself—to be someone who can speak and be listened to. The distinctive personalities of Jody and Tea Cake in particular bring to light Janie's progress toward finding a voice. While Jody stifles Janie and does not allow

A question that Zora Hurston asks in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is this: What does it take to reach a fulfilled life? Hurston places her main character, Janie, in very polar settings, to introduce the question to her reader.

The tides of love roll in and out, suiting each shore they meet, painting a picture of beautiful sparkling, although sometimes turbulent waters. For Janie, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, she grasps her life by the ropes and lets it take her on the adventure of a lifetime, never regretting the love she felt and the hardships she endured to find that true and untarnished love. Janie marries thrice, each time drawing nearer to the distant and seemingly unreachable horizon while gaining bits and pieces of self-actualization. The diction, imagery, and figurative language in Zora Neal Hurston’s (ADJ) novel produces a profound effect: allowing the reader to delve into the lives of her characters and walk with them through their trials and their