Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay

a personal and unique way that reflects the author. These five elements throughout the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston and Beloved written by Toni Morrison contrast each other distinctly. Diction is the literary device that gives the author the opportunity to set the pathway of word choice. Zora Neale Hurston's word choice in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is what makes this novel extremely unique. Under the vast umbrella of diction themes, Hurston chose…

Emotional, controversial, and dramatic are three words that describe the book Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God was written to talk about controversial topics and to show the audience how Hurston felt about those topics. The book is based around six main characters, one who is extremely important named Janie. Janie is a woman who married three different men and was in different types of abusive relationships with each one. She was told that…

Their Eyes Were Watching God Lit Analysis The book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, makes a fascinating point on how alienation, reveals the assumptions that society makes of others based on their gender,social class and race. Janie is a prime example in this book. Her struggle with isolation is mainly because of the gender roles that this society believes in. Also, aside from gender, social class and race play large part in the alienation of Janie in her community. First off, the society in…

Topic 4: An Analysis of the Redemptive Qualities of Music in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin This literary study will define the redemptive qualities of music that bring joy and relief to oppressed Africa-Americans in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin. In Hurston’s novel, the interjection of music in the lives of Tea Cake and Janie define a time of redemption from the suffering her…

most of history, Anonymous was a woman," pointing out how women's narratives have frequently been overlooked in the archives of literature. Yet, authors such as Zora Neale Hurston refuse to let these voices go unheard. In her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and in the feminist theory section of "Critical Theory Today" by Lois Tyson, the exploration of female empowerment takes center stage, offering insights into the complexities of gender dynamics and societal expectations. Against the…

reed pieces of the hills”(Steinbeck 328). Just like one can mold music, I believe people can be molded. Not with your hands like you would with clay, but experiences and others around them can mold an individual into who they are. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Janie and Ma Joad share a certain certitude with everything they do. These two women have shaped me, for they have taught me the benefits of pursuing what I believe in and…

Zora’s Eyes Were Watching in Disappointment Oprah Winfrey produced the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God based on the novel but she changed so many important details from the book in the movie that it is as if she has not read the book at all. In the novel there are many vital symbols that Oprah removed while making the movie, one of those, the gate. When Janie kisses Johnny Taylor the gate appears between them; on one side of the gate the life of innocence and Janie’s childhood, a life of…

Society has the tendency to worship famous or well achieved people, but do those celebrities really deserve to get that credit? Even above God? The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is set in a post slavery time before the Great Depression. The central character, Janie Crawford, grew up in Florida as a member of the low class, because she and her family are black. Her only family is her nanny who encourages her to get married and have a life she believes Janie deserves,…

The Strength of a Woman in a Patriarchal World Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is a novel about a woman named Janie, and her search for her identity and a mutual relationship. At the start, Janie is forced into marriage by her Nanny where her husband, Logan Killicks, does everything for her. Janie is not in love with him so she leaves him for a charismatic man named Jody. Janie finds that Jody is oppressive and she is forced to be seen but not heard until his death twenty years…

Americans were not content with just freedom, for it was only a step towards equality. Furthermore, in the 1920’s, not settling for the restrictions placed on them by white society, the Harlem renaissance emphasized a proud African-American culture; one…