Zora Neale Hurston

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston illustrates the life of a young girl named Janie Crawford; a beautiful mixed girl who was raised by her grandmother around a white family. The events that took place in Janie’s childhood affected who she believed she was. Janie was a stranger to herself and had trouble with her self-identity. The exposition of Janie’s love life started when Janie was sixteen years old and got caught kissing a boy by Nanny. Immediately Nanny married Janie

had to be up and on their feet throughout the day. They had to keep the house tight,provide food for the family of the house, and were expected to keep themselves top shape and nice all the time. In the novel¨Their Eyes Were Watching God¨ by Zora Neale Hurston uses figurative language to demonstrate the love is not always how it seem. Janie's first love Logan Killicks was the start of her journey from becoming a young lady into a woman. She got married for

The Charater of Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God       In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford is the heroine. She helps women to deal with their own problems by dealing with hers. She deals with personal relationships as well as searches for self-awareness. Janie Crawford is more than a heroine, however, she is a woman who has overcome the restrictions placed on her by the oppressive forces and people in her life.   As a young woman, Janie had no

Anthropology and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah's Gourd Vine Zora Neale Hurston described the study of anthropology as a spy-glass, an illuminating lens (1). Anthropology is defined as the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans (2). Through this study and with the aid of an essay defining human nature written by Cardinal Jean Daniello, we can take a closer look at the behavior of the characters in

Zora Neale Hurston, an American anthropologist, a great folklorist and writer who is well known and regarded as an initiator among Afro-American female writers as she decides to present the optimistic part of black life. She was not at all interested in introducing “sociological jeremiad” (Every Tub 68) in her writings. She motivated through her writings that Afro- Americans should in spite of their painful experience of enslavement, learn to value their folklore in order to keep their essential

The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston discussed many important themes and topics. Throught my reading, there was one specific topic that stood out to me: One’s search for identity. In the novel, the main character, Janie Star, spends this entire book trying to figure out who she is. Now there are other things Janie figures out along the way too. For example, she learns lessons about prejudice and racism and that these two things can come from inside the community as well as

Janie clashes with the values that others imposed upon her. Throughout the book she is trying to find love. Love to Janie is not only physical passion but an emotional connection, like the bumble bee and the pear tree, she sat under as a child. Zora Neale Hurston represents this through Janie's three marriages in this book. In Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks, she marries a guy her grandmother forces her to marry. She thought she would fall in love with him over time, but she could not. She

Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, uses diction in order to depict Janie’s self-possession over her life and hope for her future. While flirting with Janie, Tea Cake convinces her that “Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom” (104). Hurston’s use of diction depicts Janie’s self-governance. Hurston describes Janie as possessing the “keys to the kingdom”. Owning the keys to an object implies ownership, so Hurston is describing

December, 2014 Their Eyes Were Watching God Book vs. Movie In Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford explored a whole new world to find herself. Hurston’s book focused on Janie’s personal prosperity and development. Oprah Winfrey’s movie based on Hurston’s focused primarily on Janie and Tea Cake’s love story. Because of the changes made, the movie does not resemble Hurston’s book. Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God focusing on Janie’s personal

In comparing Zora Neale Hurston’s “Of Mules and Men” and Clifford Geertz’s “Balinese Cockfight” a direct difference between insider verses outsider is portrayed. Hurston’s approach of going back and immersing herself into the culture she grew up in and Geertz’s approach of immersing himself into a foreign culture results in a clear distinction in their ethnographic approach, focus of observation and consequently their findings. The ethnographic approach taken by both Zora Neale Hurston and Clifford