her growth‚ and her hair represents her independence. Janie Crawford has been under someone’s watchful eye her entire life‚ starting with her grandma who made her marry an old farmer for the sole reason of economic stability. That led her to runaway with Joe Starks‚ but he turned out to be verbally and physically abusive. When she finally meets a respectful young man named Teacake‚ Janie lets her hair down both figuratively and literally. Janie has been under someone’s watchful eye for the majority
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person’s decision to use his voice by depicting the relationships Janie Crawford experiences. Janie’s caretaker as she grows up is Nanny‚ her grandmother who believes she knows what is best for Janie. Nanny wants to marry Janie off quickly to Logan Killicks‚ so that after Nanny died‚ Janie would be protected. Although Nanny believes she is guaranteeing Janie’s safety‚ she is also quelling Janie’s voice and her ideas of love. Janie believes in marrying for love and after marrying Logan‚ believes
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The Harlem Renaissance was the beginning of African Americans finding new cultural identities and ideals as America reached the end of slavery. One of these African Americans was Janie Crawford whose upbringing was different from that of the slave period. Janie‚ the main character in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937) by novelist Zora Neale Hurston is a perfect example of showing that humans have the skill to learn and grow by trial and error. She experienced life’s offers different from those
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2013 Their Eyes Were Watching God The main character Janie Crawford grows through four of the five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Personal development. Janie starts off in a sense of survival mode‚ since Nannie is the one who makes major personal and financial sacrifices in order to make Janie’s life better than her own and her daughters. Even though life is “good” for Janie she really has no sense of who she is an individual. When Janie begins her story her first actual memory is having no personal
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God writes about an African American woman named Janie Crawford who is in search of her inner self. While maturing‚ she develops more sexual desires which led to her three marriages. In The Kiss of Memory‚ Tracy L. Bealer talks about how love can be so many things and can be a struggle for Janie from her three very different marriages. Developing sexual desires made Nanny realize that a new life should be put ahead of Janie. Nanny then forces Janie into her first marriage with a man named Logan Killicks
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Alabama. In 1937‚ which was around the time of the Harlem Renaissance‚ Mrs.Hurston had published Their Eyes Were Watching God. Their Eyes Were Watching God is about Janie Mae Crawford‚ a middle aged black woman named who returns to Eatonville‚ Florida and tells her friend her life story‚ she talks about her grandmother‚ Nanny Crawford‚ and her first husband Logan Killicks‚ who was not romantic‚ and treated her like he owned her. Her second husband Jody Starks‚ who had stolen her away and treated
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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD ESSAY ¬¬ Janie Crawford is surrounded by outward influences that contradict her independence and personal development. These outward influences from society‚ her grandma‚ and even significant others contribute to her curiosity. Tension builds between outward conformity and inward questioning‚ allowing Zora Neal Hurston to illustrate the challenge of choice and accountability that Janie faces throughout the novel. Janie’s Grandma plays an important outward influence
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Tariq Muhammad Per 2 Their Eyes Were Watching God In the book‚ Their Eyes Are Watching God‚ character Janie Crawford takes a journey of self discovery. This journey requires that she must give up the people she loves. The only way she can achieve true love is through countless losses. The story opens when Janie returns to Eatonville‚ Florida. Upon her return‚ the townsfolk gossip about her and what happened to her husband‚ a young man named Tea Cake. Janie’s friend Pheoby Watson visits her to
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Home > Our Books > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Teacher’s Guide > Essay Topics 1. After years of polite submission to her male counterparts‚ Janie gains her voice in Chapters 7 and 8. Prior to her defiance of Joe‚ Janie observes the way Daisy‚ Mrs. Bogle‚ and Mrs. Robbins are treated by the men. These three Eatonville women provide caricatures—quick‚ stereotyped sketches—of what it means to be a black woman in this small Florida
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In literature‚ a character’s abilities‚ actions‚ and opportunities are affected by their surrounding environment‚ including the characters they interact with. Their Eyes Were Watching God’s Janie Crawford is no exception‚ as the book follows her ascent from only being capable of reaching the Love and Belonging level while she is the wife of Jody Starks to having the potential to reach the Esteem level after she weds Tea Cake Woods. Zora Neale Hurston’s indirect characterization of Jody Starks as
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