Gates * Janie Porter Barrett Links * www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jane_Addams * www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWstarr.htm * www.socialwelfarehistory.com/people/barrett-janie-porter People and groups involved * Jane Addams * Ellen Gates * Janie Porter Barrett Links * www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jane_Addams * www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWstarr.htm * www.socialwelfarehistory.com/people/barrett-janie-porter
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In Hurston’s literary work‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ she employs the use of southern dialect in her characters dialogue. Hurston uses the dialect to convey the personality of her characters while adding to the feeling of a story that is being told. The dialect helps the reader feel like the novel has come to life before them and they mentally attribute different surrounding backgrounds to Hurston’s characters‚ while taking in the meanings and significance behind Janie’s life story of love and
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earlier. Tea Cake and Janie sit in the store drinking Coca-cola when Tea Cake offers to Janie if she wanted a passenger train or a battleship using the questions “Which one do you want? It all depends on you.” (101) The freedom of choice is finally in Janie’s hands as Tea Cake asks her “Which do you want?”. Hurston projected the emotion of contentment through the last quote “‘Tain’t dat Ah worries over Joe’s death‚ Pheoby. Ah jus’ loves dis freedom.”(93) then moving on to Janie making a choice on her
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people were. Hurston views life in a way that there are several possibilities and she is going to use her “oyster knife‚” to take over these opportunities. Readers see this in Janie‚ as she has an epiphany under the pear tree. From the beginning of the novel we see her running away from Logan to Joe‚ but now we can see that Janie can also run away from Joe‚ because she knows that life is full of possibilities and nothing is going to stop her from following what she truly believes. However‚ Wright criticizes
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is a feminist novel. I think The Eyes Were Watching God is a feminist novel. Because this novel has a tough black woman to search for who she is and her happiness. With those facts‚ Janie is a fast forward thinking‚ powerful female protagonist. She is a victim again and again of male repression and domination‚ Janie stands for herself at several points throughout the novel. I think there is more evidence to claim that she develops what might be called a feminist consciousness through the intensity
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silence. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the author confronts the same problem through the life of the female heroine Janie and her quest of identity. On her way Janie is met with many challenges that raise eyebrows and gossiping that quickly plagues the people around her like an epidemic‚ with quick judgment ensuing. The character Janie is naturally at war with herself‚ constantly in a state of wonder of who she really is‚ even biologically since she is of mixed blood. On her
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In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Janie‚ the main character‚ goes through a complex series of events that allows her to realize her dream at the end. Janie’s American Dream involves finding someone who understands her and loves her‚ in turn‚ helping her to find herself. Janie has gone through many experiences‚ both good and bad‚ that have molded her as a person. She was married at 17 to someone she didn’t love. “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead‚ so she became
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when she was younger because her father raped her mother and she was an a;chlic and she moved with her grandmother. In the book “Their Eyes” when the storm approached‚ Janie and Tea cake stayed back while everyone fled from the town. During the storm Tea cake was bitten by a dog with rabies during the flood trying to help Janie from drowning. In the film “Beasts” HushPuppy and Wink also had encountered a storm that flooded their home town‚ during the storm Wink also gotten sick during the storm
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by researchers (Miller‚ 2004). They debate the question of why Hurston did not give Janie a chance to tell her story by means of a first person
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Their Eyes Were Watching God was by far the greatest piece of literature I’ve read and studied this year. There are a great number of life lessons that Janie learns that could be applied to our lives. As well as Janie’s life decisions‚ the characters portrayed in the novel reflect the characters that play roles in our lives‚ effectively creating a situation that we can relate to. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a great piece of literature because it tells of scenarios that could happen in our lives
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