Zora Neale's Spectacle: A Narrative Fiction

Zora Neale Hurston's “Their Eyes Were Watching God” follows Jamie Crawford who consecutively becomes involved in three marriages with distinct men that she eventually leaves, but not without finding a semblance of her identity through them. Janie’s ability to seek out her dreams and her persistence towards discovering not only love, but herself through relationships portrays her as a peculiar individual who defies the social norm of the time period where a woman, especially black women, should not have a voice. The confounding qualities Janie emits prompts for an in-depth study on how Hurston develops the growth of a black woman’s personal autonomy in a highly oppressive setting.

R: At this point in the story, Janie is much less controlled by the male presences within her life. From Mr. Killicks, who completely controlled her life, to Jody, who gave her the illusion of self-control but in fact had her in a subservient position, Janie has not had much of a say in her own life. Yet, with Tea Cakes there is a newfound sense of independence, in that she chooses to work in the field to stay close with her husband instead of being forced to do manual labor. However, without taking a risk and leaving the life that she took for granted, Janie would not be able to find this freedom. In a sense, she reflects the human spirit. Often we are so used to something in our life that we think there is any possible alternative. It takes

Ultimately, Janie found herself contempt with the experience from her adventure. Janie at a young age knew nothing of love, but as she grew up love took hold of her. Janie searched for love to the point of looking for it blindfolded. After the first two attempts of love, she was able to find some of her ideals of love in Tea Cake, but after losing him, she was able to see her capability. She developed to the point of taking action for herself as “She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around her waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder” (Hurston 193). Janie who was once a girl that waited for life to give her an answer on love was able to search for it. She carries the negatives and positives from her adventure

“ Ohh yeah, come help me find the tortillas for the enchiladas. “ Aria told her.

It was a warm summer evening, Crate was laying down while John was working on his work project. Crate felt different, she felt ill. Her stomach hurt...a lot. “What’s wrong honey?” “I think, I think..” “You think what?” “I think my water just broke!”. He immediately shoved her into the car and drove her to the hospital. When they got there it was almost too late. She was in labor for hours. John had gotten so worried that he broke into her room and held her hand. “Why are you here?” Crate asked, “Did you hear what the doctor said?”. “No,” John said as he went towards her bed “What did he say?” Crate thought about if she should tell him the truth or not, it was too risky but, she had made her decision. “The baby~~~She’s not going to make it..”.

Laurens face is still featureless. Mary is scrambling all over the house looking for her purse and keys. Mary finally finds her keys and purse. Mary puts Lauren in the car and takes her to the hospital. Lauren has no panic look on her face at all. After driving almost an hour over the speed limit to get to the hospital, they were there. Lauren and Mary walked into the hospital and told the lady at the counter what she saw her daughter do. The lady took Lauren into urgent care, with Mary runny behind them. Right when they went into a closed off room their were 2 doctors and 1 nurse ready for Lauren's hand. Mary stood outside worried to death about Lauren. When Lauren came in the professionals were astonished to see what she has done to her hand.

one placid evening, April and Amber were having a good time , suddenly Amber was collapsed they rushed her to the hospital. The doctor discovered that Amber has a very serious illness that needs to be treated right away. The doctor tried to condole April about Amber's condition, so April called her amiable grandmother and spoke to her about Amber's condition. she was really upset about the sad news. The only thing she could do is support her with the money to get the treatment she needs. So, she asked April if she could stop by her house and give her the money. While going home April met her friends to go out and decided to be desirous with the money and have a good time. She spent all her sister's treatment money on her selfish needs and

One day Jesse when into the woods to hunt some turtles for turtle soup that his Uncle wanted. While he was hunting for turtles a young woman ,who was a slaven , with her child and ,one on the way, found him and told him to get the midwife. Jesse does exactly that ,but he had to leave the woman ,Lydia, in the woods because she was not sure if she was going to make it over there. Jesse finds the midwife, Miss Sally, and tells her to follow him in the woods because Lydia was about to give birth. Miss Sally and Jesse run as fast as they could through the woods to find her. Miss Sall and Jesse find her and Miss Sally told Jesse to help her with Lydia. Lydia finally gives birth but the baby died ,but shortly after the mother dies and jesse has

When they got Jasmine on the chair to roll her to the room the doctor yelled out , “she’s going into cardiac arrest!” Cassie called Jasmine’s husband and he arrived in less than 10 minutes even though their house is on the other side of town. In the room, the doctor yelled, “Jasmine to push the baby out, you have to pushhh!” When Jasmine pushed out the baby the doctor said, “it’s a girl,” but Jasmine was still yelling. The doctor looked over at Jasmine’s ultrasound and to his surprise there was another baby hidden behind the first baby. The doctor told Jasmine that she had another baby in her stomach. Sadly the baby was stuck to Jasmine’s umbilical cord which feeds the baby; it was tangled around her neck which was choking the baby and food was not getting to her. So the baby was starving and choking to death inside of Jasmine. The only way that the baby could get out of Jasmine was for them to do a C-Section or to have an abortion. The doctor said, “You have 3 minutes to make a decision because she was losing to much blood.” Unfortunately Jasmine could not get cut anymore in her stomach because of her surgery as the baby. The doctor told Jasmine, “I’m sorry but either you or the baby will survive but not both.” Jasmine looked up at her husband and he wrapped his arms around her immediately. The doctor said , “Jasmine if you do have the baby it

Then the sun came out. It brought brightness and excitement to the land. The little girl seemed happy. Then Margot woke up. Margot remembered that feeling. Margot wants to go back to earth. Margot quickly ran to her parents like an olympian running to the finish line. When Margot saw her parents they said “ Where were you Margot we were so worried about you we couldn't find you at all. We thought you got lost outside in the rain.” “ No, these mean kids locked me in the closet then I wasn't able to see the sun.” Margot said “ oh, i'm so sorry dear I know how important that was to you.” “ Well what did you come to see me for?” Margot's mom said “ I want to go back to earth. Eath is happiness mom.” Margot said “ oh, I thought you loved it hear. When we first got hear all you did was play in the rain and mud.” Margots mom said “ No the sun brings me more happiness than anything else.” Margot's said “ Well I would have to talk to your dad then.” “ Ok.” said Margot So Margot and her mom walked down the hall to her dad’s office. “ Hey dad I want to go back to earth.” MArgot said “ I thought you loved it here kiddo.” “ No I really want to go to earth.” Margot said “ well ok… Ya sure I love that idea.” So then the next day Margot packed

“We’re going to stop and get some ice cream at my favorite ice cream spot before we head home. How about that?” Rose asked the girls.

"Alex hurry up before we leave you behind," yelled dad. "I'm coming," I said picking up my guitar and violin. I ran down the stairs stopping by the door to look around one last time. My dad had just gotten a job promotion that required us to move, so we're leaving our small town in Ferndale Florida, to the big Apple New York. I picked up my box of songs and poems, that I didn't realize I put down, and put them in the trunk. I then picked up my kitten Louis, and got in the car. "How long is the drive," my little sister Lyssa asked. "About five hours," mom answered. "Great my butt will be numb in a matter of one hour," I groaned. "Will my piano be there by time we get there mom," I asked. "Of course, we all know how crazy you'd be if you didn't have your instruments to play," mom replied. "That’s true, I'd go insane if I didn't have my babies with me," I said. After that everything went to being quiet, but the music playing in the background. About two and a half hours later, mom turned to us and asked “Do the two of you want to stop at Zaxby's for lunch?” “Sure that's cool,” we both replied. With that said, everything was once again quite, except for the sound of rumbling stomachs.

A little while later hagan got up to go get a snack , but it was too quick because he came back fast and he went straight to my mom. “ Mom I think shes watching me” hagan said “who” “ you know the girl” he said looking around as if she were right there, but was she? Crrrreeeaaakk a door slowly opens they both turn to face the living room “hey everybody I am home!” rhyane says. I come running from my mom's room and jump into rhyanes arms “Hey sister sister from another mister” I say as we both laugh as she's squeezing me so tight I'm starting to feel like my eye are gonna pop out! “ can’t breath” I say as she lets go and when she does I rub out a cramp in my neck “ why are you

Soon after I finished unpacking my room I went to see if Barns and Noble needed the help. I was hoping they didn’t but I left with a job that day. Soon after I left to go back to the cabin. When I got home I told my mom. “MOM CAN YOU COME HERE PLEASE I HAVE SOME SAD NEWS!” she came running from her room. “WHAT HAPPENED ARE YOU OKAY??” she asked worriedly. “Yes mom I’m fine. You won’t be though. You won’t be seeing my beautiful face all the time anymore I got the job” I said sarcastically. “Woo what a miracle they actually hired you!!” she responded pretending to be shocked. “Well lucky for you I start tomorrow. Have you meet the new people yet?” I asked. “Yeah I have actually they left a few minutes before you came back. They

Angel hears the doorbell rings, she runs downstairs and said “who is it”, in a scary voice, “it's Angie” Angie is Angel’s close friend, Angel opens the door and jump on her and said “I’m so glad you’re here somebody was in the house and they attacked me, my parents are on the way”, Angel said to Angie a she was crying, “omg are you okay?” Angie asked Angel, “no I want David to hurry up and get here and so scared”, Angel said to Angie as she continue to cry,