5 Memorable Quotations from Their Eyes Were Watching God 1. “Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times.” – Narrator This quote is very telling of the social climate of Eatonville. The citizens of the town seem to loathe Janie for breaking free of societal expectations like settling down and remarrying someone stable, as they think a woman her age should be doing. However, they are actually envious of Janie’s free spirit and willingness to break the
“locker room talk” and forceful sexual approaches. Between this and the unspoken of societal rule that defending men from harmful stereotypes is enabling them, there is a large portion of men that get represented in an unfair light. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a feminist novel, showing the struggles of the female protagonist Janie. In the novel, Janie details her three marriages and the issues she faces with each one such as her first husband treating her like a mule, her
Summer Reading Assignment 1. I read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, copyright in 1937 and has a total of 193 pages. 2. A major theme in Their Eyes Were Watching God is the search for real love. Janie Crawford goes on a journey in order to find her true love and what true love really means. If Janie didn’t have that desire, all the marriages she was in would not have a point. Men don’t always treat her right so when she meets Tea Cake things are different. The search for love
Janie’s Growth in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Decisions.... Anyone who’s ever read Their Eyes Were Watching God can partake in this argument- did Janie need Tea Cake, or was she better off alone and in no relationship? I’ve come to the conclusion that Janie is better off in a relationship with Tea Cake because in the book, he teaches her to appreciate herself, he is responsible and tells the truth, and he allows her to have fun. One reason Janie is better off with Tea Cake is the fact that Tea Cake repeatedly
An analysis of Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God Certain goals or visions are often withheld for the simple fact that what we want sometimes does not look right in the eyes of people we hold dear. In The novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora neale hurston, skillfully uses characterization to vividly portray how gender superiority impacts one’s decisions in life. Janie Crawford the protagonist struggles trying to find who she is through the men she meets in her life because
Chapter 6 of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston starts out by describing how Janie detests running the store, but also how she finds some joy in listening to the bright stories the townsfolk have on the porch. The guys there like to tease Matt Bonner- a man with an overworked good-for-nothing mule. Jody, regardless of Janie's wonderment in the stories, forbids her from hanginging out with the trashy people out on the porch. Because of the men who constantly are entranced by Janie’s
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God introduced many symbolic elements; however, the most prominent was mules. Throughout the whole novel, mules remained a constant besides in her marriage with Tea Cake. Mules first appear with Janine's Nanny discussing the level of power white and Black people have, "'De nigger woman is de mule uh de world.."'(pg. 14) The book states that white men have the power and black males have power over their women. Mules are known as a dumb animal
Statement: Having found love makes one’s life feels fulfilled and satisfied. Quotations: In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, there was a quotation that connects to my universal theme statement. In page 108 Janie states, “Dis ain’t no business proposition, and no race after property and titles. Dis is uh love game. Ah done live Grandma’s way, now Ah means tuh live mine.” This quote connects to the universal theme statement because all Janie’s life she had to find love her grandma’s way, but
Janie Crawford-Killicks-Starks-Woods, the main character and protagonist in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston has many different experiences with love over the course of the novel. In the beginning of the novel Janie was curious about love and all Janie wanted to do was experience it, then when she had the opportunity to fall in love she found out it was hard than she first imagined. It was not the fairy tale she had been imagining, She was forced into a relationship unlike