Neale Hurston’s novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God incorporates three main themes with motifs that define Janie as an independent‚ intelligent‚ and strong woman. The three themes include: speech and silence‚ power and downfall as means to accomplishment‚ and love and relationship in opposition to independence. In each theme‚ a motif is attached to give meaning of Hurston’s interpretation of Janie. Zora Neale Hurston utilizes speech and silence as an interesting narrative structure‚ splitting the
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Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie is the main character. She is lighter skinned then most of her black community. “What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on? —Where’s dat blue dress she left here in? —Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her? —What dat ole forty year ole ‘oman doin’ wid her hair swingin’ down her back lak some young gal?......why she don’t stay in her class? —” (Hurston 2). Janie resists being classed off from her
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marriage‚ arranged by a grandmother (Nanny) whose sole motivation is to preserve Janie from being like other African American women”(Hurston). When Janie was growing her grandmother had already planned out how she wanted Janie’s future to be. Although Nanny wanted it to be for the best of her it taught Janie the wrong morels. Nanny was of course afraid of having what happened to her and her daughter happened to Janie‚ so she secluded her imagination and gave her a path and image to follow. The first
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Janie stands and ponders her life in a way she never has before. Her image of Jody becomes tainted‚ while she realizes her youth is expiring and her dreams are seeming more and more elusive. The image of the shelf inside her represents what she thought her life would become. Janie always dreamed of finding a passionate and fulfilling love‚ along with a personal freedom within that love. From the beginning of the novel‚ it is made apparent Janie would have a hard time finding this. Whether it is
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In the story‚ Their Eyes were watching God was the story of Janie and her tremendous journey to find her true self. There were many things that influenced her to mature throughout the book. One of these influences was nature. Nature played an important role in shaping Janie’s character; from the pear tree‚ where she first realized her sexuality to the devastating hurricane that swept the town. These features in nature helped her mature and realize what she needed as growing woman throughout the
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Everglades‚ a more progressive place. “So the very next morning Janie got ready to pick beans along with Tea Cake. There was a suppressed murmur when she picked up a basket and went to work. She was already getting to be a special case on the muck...Then Tea Cake would help get supper afterwards.” (PAGE).Through the imagery of Janie working in the field‚ a stereotypical male task‚ and Tea Cake cooking supper‚ a female dominated job‚ Janie and Tea Cake are able to become more
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Hurston uses dialogue to show the relation between individuals. She more specifically uses dialog to show how Janie came from a higher class than most of the people she encountered. In her story of her youth‚ Janie talks of how she lived in the back yard of a nice white family. The family treated her as an equal by playing with her and even giving her clothes that they grew out of. Whenever Janie would go to school‚ the colored kids would always exclude her from their games because she was not like them
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women should be verbalized down upon due to their inferiority to men. 5. Janie is constantly scrutiny feeling because her resplendent looks cause people to visually examine her proximately. 6. Janie’s hunt for love is implacable because the
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Logan‚ Joe‚ then Tea Cake she figures out what is for her and how she wants to live. So in the end‚ she is where she wants to be. In Janie’s early life she lived with her grandmother‚ Nanny. Nanny and Janie were pretty well off and had the privilege to live in the yard of white folks. While Janie was growing up she played with the white children. While she was in this stage‚ she was faced with much criticism and was called many names‚ so many that everyone started calling her alphabet‚ "’cause
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Janie experience the loss of her first dream‚ which prepare her for life as a woman. | Chapter 20‚ Page 184 | "It was the meanest moment of eternity. A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cake’s head in her lap. She had wanted him to live so much and he was dad. No hour is ever eternity‚ but it has its right to weep." | Janie was very sad and hurt for that fact she had to
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