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In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston a particular review comes to mind Lucile Tompkins, The New York Times Book Review, her words of describing this novel as sententious in the beginning of the novel and humors makes it seem that Hurston intent to proceed these sort of ideas to the readers. Others may disagree ,but her views of the book can be supported. It’s realistic since the novel starts with people sitting on their porch judging a woman walking down the sidewalk who does not saying anything. As well the humors idea of a man teaching his female killer to shoot a gun. In the beginning of the novel the narrator starts with the introduction of porch sitters.
A group of people who talk about others in their community without any knowledge of what they’re going through. It’s understanding that the first chapter can come across as “ a little sententious at the start” (Tompkins.) Since the porch sitters talk about how Janie’s behavior towards them is a sign of rudeness for not sharing about why she came back to Eatonville. The morally judgmental aspect of this situation …show more content…
The way Tompkins describes the novel as being ,”...shining with humor”(Tompkins.) Is quite astonishing since the climax of the novel is the death of Tea Cake but not out of the ordinary because Janie was the person who killed him. Janie, the woman who was taught by Tea Cake how to shoot a gun .It’s told to the readers that Janie,”... got to be a better shooter than Tea Cake” (Hurston.) Meaning that she has out mastered her teacher. The thought of the teacher being killed by the student is ironic since Tea Cake was the one who knew how to shoot which is what makes the novel become humors. The idea of teaching your killer how to