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marriage would leave the bedroom. This is also why this love worked out and they understood each other. "Why, Tea Cake? Whut good do combin' mah hair do you? It's mah comfortable, not yourn.” “It's mine too”(103). Tea Cakes didn't restricted her like Jody would and she found that she liked not being restricted by having been restricted before. With Logan, her first husband, he never asked her to do much that she didn't want to do

In “Their Eyes are Watching God”, Janie looks up at the pear tree and admires the bee sinking into the bloom and how “ the thousand sister- calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight” (Hurston 28). She views this as her ideal marriage and throughout the book she is trying to find her “bee” that will give her that same fondness as the interaction of the bee and the bloom. Her first experience

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The times in which “Their Eyes Were Watching God” took place were extremely difficult for a black woman to live in let alone find her voice. Zora Neale Hurston uses symbols throughout “Their Eyes Were Watching God” to explain events, rather than sating them. She interprets many important aspects of life and turns these events into symbols throughout the novel. Hurston uses the horizon and the pear tree as symbols to illustrate, clarify, and intensify abstract concepts in the novel such as Janie’s

anyway. Eventually the two decide to make it official, as they marry, and move to the Everglades. Almost immediately, Janie and Jody become heavily part of the Everglades lifestyle. Teacake teaches Janie to shoot, something she would of never thought to do. Both work in the fields with the rest of the community. Janie cooks dinner, cleans, and still has time to spend time with Jody and work the fields. Janie's house becomes a heavy part of the community, almost like a “magnet” (Hurston 134). Other field

Black womanhood is extremely complex because this is a group of people who have marginalized for centuries. There is a burden put on black women that other groups do not experience. Being a woman in today’s society is a burden alone, but on top of that being African American presents another set of obstacles. Linda Brent in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God, are both black women who are oppressed by society as a whole, particularly males. Since

represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke of far horizon.” Eventually she leaves with him to go Eatonville, an all black town of which he quickly becomes the mayor. Jody values power and consequently only values Janie in her ability to help him gain it. It’s of some note that the way in which Jody rises to power mirrors that of a white man. He assumes the position of mayor and become the “bossman” or overseer for the town. He builds a big white house that dwarfs the other citizen’s

In a time period which covers the era that saw the first generation African-Americans come of age without any memory of being slaves to just shortly before American women could stand up alongside Soviet women and say they had the right of self-determination through the acquisition of suffrage, the history of colored women was one distinctly different from everyone else. If African-Americans could honestly and accurately be said to hold any particular type of freedom or even a particular right in

climb to painless heights from his dunghill” pg.76 Janie can’t see her worth because Jody keeps telling her that she means nothing, and he continually hurts her while trying to climb to “painless heights” he’s hurting everyone, including himself. The heavens are Janie, so it’s a metaphor. This provides a bigger effect later in the chapters, when Jody dies so Janie is then able to live as she wnatw without Jody tearing her down, so she can finally figure out that she IS the heavens. This represents

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