Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay

My most profound experience of American Literature during Great American Authors class was reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The experience was optimistic, and I would definitely read it again. This was the first time I have read this book, but I heard about it before we read it. I was very excited to start reading it because of all of the positive feedback I was getting. The experience was not disappointing. I was not necessarily excited to read a big book in class…

Since men see women beneath them, they think they have the power to control women and limit their voices; they leave women without a way to speak up for themselves. Even though it takes Janie, Zora Neale Hurston’s main character in Their Eyes Were Watching God, almost two marriages to find her voice, she discovers the power of words and the meaning of self-respect through others belittling her and making her feel worthless. Because Janie is only sixteen, she does not understand what marriage…

Marriage Defining Who You Are In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God the main character Janie Crawford starts her story as a flashback. She is returning from her final marriage with Tea Cake her husband who she had to kill because he was paranoid from having rabies. While heading back into her home town Eatonville, Florida after being gone from a long absence she overhears people talking her first husband Tea Cake and the rags she is wearing. “Marriage is viewed as a sign of maturity for some…

The roles of women in Their Eyes Were Watching God vary and are very interesting in chapter one through six. In the beginning, Nanny tell how men were able to take the innocence, sexually, from women. Nanny was raped by her slave owner, and then she had her baby daughter. She then was abused by the slave owner’s wife when she saw the complexion of the baby and knew it was her husbands’. Nanny was able to escape without being killed herself and having her baby taken away. Nanny’s daughter,…

Love comes in different forms through different people. Sometimes it comes easy, and sometimes it doesn't. For Janie Starks, the main character in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, it did not come easy. After two unsuccessful marriages, Janie struggled to find love. Janie's Grandmother Nanny, raised her to look for financial security instead of seeking love. Nanny’s theory was that once you find financial stability, love will come after. Even though Janie's grandmother never…

TE LAP TOPIC #3 A plant is part of nature, it lives and dies like humans. Nature evolves into a greater understanding in life, it has a meaning to why it lives. In The Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, it illustrates how Janie’s life was represented by nature and how her life changed because of it. The changes in life happen for many reasons and are reflected upon nature's surroundings. Nature speaks to Janie in a way that only she understands why it changes the perspectives in…

To achieve a dream is to achieve your horizon. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston introduced readers to the value of the horizon by the main character in the book Janie who played a role in achieving her horizon. Janie was on a search for her horizon, yet during that search came a journey filled with many obstacles. Janie went through a few obstacles to reach her horizon to the point she ended up having hate towards her Nanny and Joe Starks for trying to take the horizon away…

The quest for love and happiness often seems outside our grasp. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Janie is married three times looking for love in each of Janie’s marriages she is abused in a different way. Finally in Janie's last marriage with Tea Cake she finds herself and love. Janie starts looking for love at a young age and seeks it throughout the novel. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is the story of Janie who searches for true love through her relationships but in the end…

“Their Eyes were watching by God,” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great Novel which clearly describes that the life of women in a low social class society that was better than the high social class society in the southern region of the united states during the past decades. The story is about a girl Janie Crawford 's who lived with her grandmother and was searching for the true love. The story describes the childhood of Jenie in which its talk about how Janie was different from other people during…

Janie: A Dynamic Protagonist Janie is the personification of femininity, and her different husbands determine her independence and the overall way that she lives. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she introduces and follows the life of Janie Crawford. Throughout the novel, Janie searches for love, independence, and self fulfillment, but this is no easy task considering the many things that she has to go through in order to get what she wants. Janie’s first husband,…