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    that gives us all the wrong ideas about ourselves. We mistakenly think of self-understanding as self-indulgence‚ and we carry on without asking the most important question we’ll ever ask: Who am I really? Zora Neale Hurston’s novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ introduces themes of love‚ status‚ and mannerisms of women while focusing on a woman’s story of self realization and empowerment. In a search for both an idyllic vision of love and herself‚ protagonist Janie Crawford sacrifices everything

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    and the 15th gave them the right to vote. However‚ even with these changes Africans Americans were still discriminated against and blamed for the Union’s issues. Racist groups started to emerge‚ pushing people to victimize the blacks even more. The white society looked down upon the blacks and treated them with disrespect as they were still separate but equal. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God depicts the story of a third century freed slave‚ Janie‚ and her fight against this prejudice

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    All her life‚ Janie has viewed marriage as a blissful point in one’s life where two intimate lovers settle down and unite. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Chapter 1-5‚ Janie dabbles into two different marriage‚ first with Logan Killicks‚ however‚ she later leaves him for Joe Starks. Her first relationship is a dry one. For starter‚ they have no chemistry‚ she hates his looks and he’s far too old for her. In her quest for love Janie becomes easily swayed be a charismatic Joe Starks. Contrary to Logan

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    Reflection “Their eyes were watching God” a novel by Zora Neale Hurston left me with a lot of wandering thoughts and questions. Through annotating these two literary criticisms by Claire Crabtree‚ Jordan Jennifer and two social issues by Keith Richburg and Anne Kingston I learned a lot about what was going on with the protagonist Janie in the story and deep in her Feminist mind and why she did some of the things she did. The first source by Jennifer changed the way I thought about Janie in the

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God In “How to read literature like a professor” Thomas Foster shows different techniques to analyze themes and ideas that are presented in literature in an amusing manner. It explains about the analysis and symbols a story or an article can have other than their literal definition. There are some chapters in the book that are greatly significant to the ideas presented in “Their eyes were watching god” by Zora Neale Hurston. There chapters that really stand out as a connection

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    "The Confluence of Folklore‚ Feminism and Black Self-Determination in Zora Neale Hurston’s ’Their Eyes Were Watching God’." The Southern Literary Journal 17.2 (Spring 1985): 54-66. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 61. Author Claire Crabtree objectively created her article off of the custom that Zora Neale Hurston used in the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. This was her way of letting the reader/audience inside life as an African American and the role

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    Sara Beth Englade Mrs. Cain EN II H/5 12/16/12 “Joe Starks” Being in high school you meet a lot of people‚ some you like‚ some you do not like‚ some enjoyable‚ and then some like Joe Starks from the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ by Hora Neale Hurtson. Joe Starks is the husband of the main character Janie‚ they meet while Janie is married to Logan Killicks. Janie runs off with Joe because he promises her a better life. For the first seven years‚ their marriage is great! Joe

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    “The Kiss of Memory”: The Problem of Love in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is an analyzation of African American love that Hurston portrays throughout the novel. This focuses on the main character‚ Janie‚ and her third husband‚ Tea Cake. The article mainly covers the couple’s sexual desires‚ domestic violence when all hell breaks loose‚ and their jealousy towards others. Tracy Bealer (the article author) also analyzed racism within relationships‚ especially towards African American relationships

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    “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston manipulates imagery to portray the authority of Joe Starks in the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Extreme versions of power are utilized as a means of conveying Joe’s natural dominance through his actions and those who interact with him. The irony of Joe Starks a black man‚ as he is compared to a white man‚ a formidable figure in any black community displays Joe’s control. He strongly resembles a white man

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    The search for one’s identity is as poignant for the fictional character Janie as it was for former slave Frederick Douglass. Douglass used education to form an independent identity‚ which would separate him from the white slave masters. In contrast‚ Janie attempts to construct a dependent identity through marriage to each of her three husbands. With the death of her final husband Tea Cake‚ she plants the seeds he left behind‚ symbolically proving that she has grown as the seeds will grow and she

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