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    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

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    own. Growing up Janie had a different lifestyle than most african Americans, she grew up believing that she was indeed white. Although she was raised by her grandmother, which she knew as nanny she lived with a family of whites and was treated as one of them.Janie was given a hard time at school because of this her nanny decided it was time to move out. The turning point in Janie 's life occurred when Nanny caught her kissing a boy; Nanny was disappointed because she wanted Janie to be better than

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    A similar kind of connection is sought by Janie to exist between her and her future husband. Nonetheless, natural spontaneity and affinity with nature are not given credit by the more experienced people around her, the people who prefer sense to sensibility and have control over her youthful mind. We see this throughout the novel, Janie wants to feel love and fulfillment throughout her relationships but is often left disappointed, often

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    Qualities That Janie Depict As A Mature Woman Human development is a cultural process that expands people's freedom, opportunity and improve their well-being. It is a process that generations revise and adapt in to human cultural. Personal fulfillment is one of those developments that is adapted into in to all human culture but it depends on the human’s relationship with nature. Zora Neale Hurston addresses human development problems in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie Mae Crawford

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    “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. Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks was arranged, meaning

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    Zora Neale Hurston

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    stubborn resistance. The mule serves to illustrate the strained relationship between Janie and Joe Starks. The figure of the mule can also refer not only to Janie herself but to any black woman struggling for independence. Janie identifies with the mule, which remains stubbornly independent despite its masters efforts to beat it down. Ironically,

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God “...you got tuh go there tuh know there (ch. 20).” In this phrase Janie is referring to the knowledge and experience she has gained by going through her past endeavors. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie discovers,“Two things everybody’s got tuh to do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves (ch. 20).” These morals of Janie’s are depictions of the book’s entirety. Although the two

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    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

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    protagonist, Janie Crawford, a confident, middle-aged black woman who goes throughout life discovering her quest for spiritual enlightenment and self-discovery. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston explains the hardships as ideas of maturity, sexism, and social class. Throughout the novel, Hurston describes Janie as a young woman with a compelling desire for seeking unconditional love. As Janie searches for her inner self, she begins life not knowing who she is. Janie endures harsh

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    don't change your life then it will never change. One major step in changing your life is speaking up for what you believe in. Throughout the novel we find out the changes Janie goes

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