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Clay Tucker 10th Grade English Their Eyes Were Watching God Final Essay Due Date: Thursday, December 10th Have Faith in God #Believe The title of Their Eyes Were Watching God is very significant to the story because it gives the reader a clue about Janie’s life. The title suggests that Janie is a person who has some tough experiences in life and has her eyes watching God looking for answers to her problems. Hurston chose this to be the novel’s title to give the reader questions before he or

“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

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. Throughout a fair part of Zora Neal Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s low class create problems when

than death. In Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie Crawford is plagued by the deaths of loved ones. Janie moves from caregiver to caregiver searching for true love and happiness, only to have it stripped away from her once she finds it in her third husband Tea Cake. At the end of the novel, having realized true love and loss, Janie is a whole woman. Their Eyes Were Watching God portrays the growth of the human spirit

Eyes Were Watching False Gods “I am the Lord your God, you shall not have other gods before me.” This is the first of the Ten Commandments. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, we see many cases of false worship and idolatry. Characters in this book worship things like their own power, the different social hierarchies like race, sex, and class, and even challenge the strength of God. In the novel, Hurston uses the worship of false gods to show the battle of God versus Man

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a novel that was written by Zora Neale Hurston. Some call this novel an “African-American feminist classic” The novel takes place in the early 1900s. It was about a story of Janie Crawford, an African-American women whose life is a quest to find true love and her journey of self-discovery. The novel narrated main character Janie Crawford’s “ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless teenage girl into a woman her finger on the trigger of her own destiny” It was not an

Likewise, the hurricane in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God also represents a watershed in Janie’s life. Both Shakespeare and Hurston use the storm to symbolize creation and regeneration among their protagonists. Hurston, however, uses figurative language to enhance features of the storm, creating a mood for the reader. Hurston uses imagery and personifications to establish varying moods throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God. For example, Hurston’s use of imagery helps to establish the

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

The title, Their Eyes Were Watching God, symbolizes the omnipotence of the God, who controls the fate of Janie, highlighting the irrelevance of people’s free will, especially African Americans. It’s indicated that the life of Janie from companionship with Joe to that with Tea Cake is all determined by the God. However, “watching God,” an attitude of Janie, contrasts with the main conformity of African American perspective. The cryptic title parallels the life track of Janie in the whole story. Literally

Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God is a story about a black woman in the 1930s, Janie’s, quest for real and fulfilling love and freedom. The story begins when her grandmother, Nanny, catches her kissing a boy she doesn’t approve of. Nanny is a former slave who is raising Janie as her own daughter, Janie’s mother, was raped at seventeen, began drinking, and ran away. Countless hardships were faced by Nanny and she was denied opportunities, like