Keagan Carpenter Mrs. O’Dell Research and Composition 13 April 2014 Their Eyes Were Watching The Color Purple Do you see someone in public who you’ve never seen in your life but their appearance is strikingly similar to someone you see every day? Well that’s how reading The Color Purple was after reading Their Eyes Were Watching God. Both novels are extremely in almost all facets of writing. The way both Celie and Janie develop and mature throughout the novel and the author’s craft used in
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Their eyes were watching god: What makes a man a good husband? Is it wealth‚and power? In some eyes yes‚ but only the people that don’t want to have to do anything. In Janie’s case she just wants someone who wants to love her just as she wants to love them. And out of her three husbands Logan and Joe both may have wealth and the will to be able to provide for Janie‚ but they didn’t have the qualities that Janie was looking for in a man.. She’s looking for someone to treat her as her equal‚ and
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makes a person who he or she is. Janie develops as a woman with the three marriages she has. In each marriage she learns valuable lessons‚ has progressively better relationships‚ and realizes how a person is to live his or her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie’s marriages to Logan Killicks‚ Jody Starks‚ and Tea Cake seem like the most crucial elements in her development as a woman. Throughout the story Hurston uses different men to portray the continuum that men
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Chapter 9 Response In the passage from chapter 9 from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the author uses diction‚ figurative language‚ and selection of detail to express Janie’s change to a self-promoting attitude compared to Nanny’s materialistic and dependant way of living life. Jody’s funeral was a great event that everyone from doctors to farm people attended. Janie’s sadness did not show‚ if she had any at all‚ but she could not show the world that she was not affected
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Chapter 10 Literary Analysis In Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ chapter 10 is an important chapter bridging the part of Janie Crawford’s life after the death of her second husband and her marriage with Tea Cake. The chapter introduced Tea Cake when he meets Janie while she is working in her store. His playfulness is revealed in this chapter. The affect Tea Cake has on Janie is personified at the end of the chapter. After Tea Cake is in the store with Janie a while‚ he suggests
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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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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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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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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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