all of these essential traits‚ through its style and essential themes‚ is what makes it uniquely American and allows it to distinguish itself as a defining example of American literature. The texts Huckleberry Finn‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ and Catch-22 all exhibit these traits in their unique ways. Their methods of accumulating all of these essential traits into one great work‚ allows these four texts
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Michelle Sheehan Professor Park Multicultural American Literature February 22‚ 2013 Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Untraditional Happy Ending Their Eyes Were Watching God brings us on a journey through Janie’s life‚ focusing mainly on her three marriages. Throughout the majority of the novel‚ it seems as if Janie is in search of a man to fulfill her wants and needs in life. Towards the end of the book‚ when Tea Cake unexpectedly passes away‚ a whole new idea comes to fruition. Janie was not
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From the Bonds of an Oppressive Master: A Comparison and Contrast of The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Though it is rare to find literary works that empower women while still maintaining a scholarly tone‚ it is interesting that both The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston achieve this without coming across as confrontational to the reader or seeming like they are trying to indoctrinate the reader into a
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the American South‚ in her work. Hurston’s fiction‚ which depicts relationships among black residents in Southern Florida‚ was largely unconcerned with racial injustices. Hurston is best known for her novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God. Published in 1937‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God has become a staple in women’s studies programs and has inspired many female authors to create non-stereotypical black female characters. Hurston is considered one of the foremost writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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makes a person who he or she is. Janie develops as a woman with the three marriages she has. In each marriage she learns valuable lessons‚ has progressively better relationships‚ and realizes how a person is to live his or her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie’s marriages to Logan Killicks‚ Jody Starks‚ and Tea Cake seem like the most crucial elements in her development as a woman. Throughout the story Hurston uses different men to portray the continuum that men
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Keagan Carpenter Mrs. O’Dell Research and Composition 13 April 2014 Their Eyes Were Watching The Color Purple Do you see someone in public who you’ve never seen in your life but their appearance is strikingly similar to someone you see every day? Well that’s how reading The Color Purple was after reading Their Eyes Were Watching God. Both novels are extremely in almost all facets of writing. The way both Celie and Janie develop and mature throughout the novel and the author’s craft used in
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In her article “Tuh de Horzion and Back: The Female Quest in Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ Missy Dehn Kubitschek argues against her fellow critics’ common misconception of Janie as “a passive prize” (109)‚ in favor of‚ recognizing the “the independence and strength” (109) within her. Kubitschek showcases the independence and strength of Janie through outlining her heroine’s quest throughout‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ according to the five qualifications‚ “answering the call to adventure‚ crossing
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Chapter 10 Literary Analysis In Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ chapter 10 is an important chapter bridging the part of Janie Crawford’s life after the death of her second husband and her marriage with Tea Cake. The chapter introduced Tea Cake when he meets Janie while she is working in her store. His playfulness is revealed in this chapter. The affect Tea Cake has on Janie is personified at the end of the chapter. After Tea Cake is in the store with Janie a while‚ he suggests
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The Significance of a Pear Tree The theme of the novel‚ “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ is the search real love and finding a new form of independence. Throughout Janie’s life‚ she faced numerous struggles as she searched for unconditional‚ true‚ and fulfilling love. Janie seeks an intimate relationship with somebody that lives up to her idea of true love‚ like that between a bee and a blossom on the pear tree that as child she witnessed while she was sitting under in her grandmother’s
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Their eyes were watching god: What makes a man a good husband? Is it wealth‚and power? In some eyes yes‚ but only the people that don’t want to have to do anything. In Janie’s case she just wants someone who wants to love her just as she wants to love them. And out of her three husbands Logan and Joe both may have wealth and the will to be able to provide for Janie‚ but they didn’t have the qualities that Janie was looking for in a man.. She’s looking for someone to treat her as her equal‚ and
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