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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Eduardo Nova Their Eyes were Watching God By: Zora Neale Hurston Topic #3: Explore how Hurston uses elements of nature as a metaphor for Janie’s life Just like a rose‚ protagonist Janie blossomed into a mature woman of her time who faced many issues such as the prevailing question “what is love?”. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston develops itself through the symbolic renditions that based itself around a secular description of Janie Crawford. The limitless horizon‚ the blossoming
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Ashley Bermudez Ms. L English Essay 12-4-12 Their Eyes Where Watching God. Janie’s three marriages helped her find herself and God. Janie spent most her life living it the way her grandmother would want her to‚ and loving the way her grandmother wanted her to. Janie’s grandmother believed love was all about money‚ property and a status; she pretty much wanted Janie to be with a black man‚ who had everything a white man had to offer‚ she wanted Janie to have the
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In this essay the plot of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God will be discussed throughout the Freytag Pyramid. The Freytag pyramid structure includes the exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action‚ and denouement. The novel is based around the life of the narrator Janie and her life experiences. It also gives an insight of how the black community in the novel felt about Janie and her actions as well as her decisions. This novel is considered a romantic novel because Janie has the most
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Is the American dream possible or is it just an illusion? Is it like what Janie experience in the Novel “ Their Eyes Were Watching God” nothing but an illusion. Janie American dream was to find true love and believed that true love will come after marriage. Janie struggle to find her true love. Janie marry Logan Killlick a rich old man she only married him because of her nanny but ends up leaving him for Joe Starks. Joe Starks was her second husband that at first he was all nice and a gentleman
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and the possibility of connection between self‚ the world‚ and other persons within Janie. In ancient Chinese mythology‚ the pear tree symbolized immortal life because of the longevity of the tree‚ the same thought can be applied in Their Eyes Were Watching God. If Janie had not continued to have hope that love was an attainable idea than she would not have been so open to connecting with Tea Cake on a deeper emotional level‚ she let her ideas of love be immortal and long lasting‚ just like a pear
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As the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God comes to a close Zora Hurston uses a lot of figurative language. On page 192 Hurston uses personification to emphasize her point. She says‚ "There was a finished silence" which makes the reader pause even before they reach the end of the sentence. The reader could either interpret the silence as being over‚ or they could see it as being a complete and undisturbed silence that was coming about. Directly after that the readers questions are answered. By saying
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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hursten the main character‚ Janie‚ has trouble finding her true love. Though Janie marries two different husbands whose character are completely divergent‚ she has yet to find someone who makes her happy even though she doesn’t know the true meaning of love. Janie’s grandma wanted Janie to get married for her protection before she dies because she wouldn’t be able to take care of Janie for long. So Granny planned Janie to marry Logan Killicks‚ even
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All throughout Their Eyes were Watching God‚ the main character‚ Janie‚ seems to swoon over her third husband Tea Cake. She’s obsessed with the fact that he makes her feel worthy or even smart unlike her other husbands‚ Joe and Logan. He actually takes the time to teach her how to play checkers‚ something she was never allowed to do. Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods also makes Janie young and spontaneous. Their adventure filled relationship make her glow inside. To the sudden night fishing trip‚ to romantic
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Zora Neale Hurston‚ author of Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ was born in 1891 in Alabama. She studied anthropology and liked to tell many stories about her African-American heritage and even other cultures. Hurston became interested in writing in her early thirties where she would write short stories and sometimes script plays. During the development of her writing career‚ she played an important role in the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston even traveled to Haiti and then Jamaica which mainly inspired
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