tales of the lives of two ordinary African-Americans. Also‚ both authors refused to make their stories a fairy tale. At the end of each novel‚ neither Janie nor Invisible Man are as happy as they’d like to be. But‚ both novels focus not on the bittersweet end‚ but rather what the characters learned before they reached the end. Janie realized that her strength was in herself and her pride‚ with or without Tea Cake. And Invisible Man realized that "My problem was
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Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth‚ and quenching the thirst of the day.” (ch.10‚ pg. 95) Here Janie is deciding whether or not she should be wary of Tea Cake; their shared love seems too perfect. This tension is also evident in Tea Cake’s name—his proper name‚ Vergible Woods‚ reminds readers of Janie’s past relationships with Logan and Joe. The woods‚ as earlier discussed‚ prevents Janie from seeing the horizon and finding love. Though his proper name has negative connotations‚ it is replaced
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and how the speech ties all these points together into the single topic of racism. In Their Eyes‚ Hurston uses the life and trials of Janie‚ to display the pliancy and ability of African American women to transform much of what others use to oppress and destroy them‚ such as race‚ gender‚ education‚ and poverty‚ into a source of strength and self-dependence . Janie is initially a young woman forced to entertain the wishes of those surrounding her‚ but she later transforms into a confident woman who
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Eyes Were Watching God is a novel that focuses on the curious attitude on the difference between genders. It is written by Zora Neale Hurston. The protagonist is Janie‚ who is a semi-black woman because she comes from mixed ancestry. The novel is merely about Janie’s search and quest for love and independence. The novel starts with Janie arriving back to her hometown‚ coming back from a death. In the first paragraph of the first page‚ the novel differentiates between women and men. There is a clear
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patriarchy and dominance over Janie when he “rears and pitches in de store sometimes when she make uh mistake is… ungodly‚ but she don’t seem to mind at all” (50). Janie lets Starks treat her that way‚ being submissive to him. These observations were made by Sam Watson‚ a porch sitter in town‚ which signify that even the common eyes can see the power and control Starks has over Janie‚ yet she doesn’t do anything about it. After he was nominated as mayor of the town‚ Janie was given an opportunity to
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person that loves them. In the end of the play‚ the characters are with the ones they truly love and it takes an unknown obstacle to find out who really matters. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ this theme is shown. In the beginning of the novel‚ Janie has been married to men that did not truly loved her‚ they loved her for what she had. Her first marriage with Logan Killicks did not end too well because she felt that he was no longer acting like he loved her. At some points she seems to
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Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a story of repression and possession by men over women in black Southern communities‚ when black men used to treat their women as if they were property. One of the main themes of this story was finding love. Janie thought that just because she married Logan she would eventually grow to love him. Now a lot of us have had a relationship where we thought we would grow to love someone but it didn’t exactly work out that way. I can definitely relate.
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Question: If you were in a unhappy relationship but that you prospered greatly from‚ what would you do? Would you stick it out or look for an escape? Close-Ended Question: What do the townspeople think of Janie when she returns in the beginning of the novel? Open-Ended Question: Is Janie truly not happy with her relationships or is she just dissatisfied? Universal Theme/Core Question: How are personal dreams and goals treated in the novel? Literary Analysis Question: How does Hurston
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This was her way of letting the reader/audience inside life as an African American and the role that the women play. Using Janie as an image to analyze the topics of self-determinism of blacks‚ independence of women‚ and feminism. Hurston glimpses at the life of African Americans by showing Janie’s exploration of self-determination and spiritual freedom. She first showed Janie struggling with her spiritual freedom by first dealing with her identity. Once she realized who she is and where she belonged
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When looking at many novels the reader tends to look at whether or not the author has sympathy with the characters. Within the two stories The Awakening and Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the author has sympathy for one of the characters but not the other. The two stories both have main characters that struggle with their own existence in life‚ but in The Awakening the author had more sympathy for Edna. In Their Eyes Were Watching God the author tends to be non-sympathetic toward all the male characters
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