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    Women in the Eyes of Society For centuries women have been considered delicate and have been looked down upon by men. In books and movies women are treated like children and work animals. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ and in the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg‚ originally written by Alice Walker‚ women are not treated like equals but as an inferior being. These stories present stereotypical women that stay at home and are mindless compared to

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    RESPONSE PAPER_1 To: Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston’s‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of repression and possession by men over women in black Southern communities. Black men in the South seemed to regard women as property. They were the masters of the household and women were portrayed as the slaves in the relationship‚ quite ironic considering the history of slavery during that time. Their Eyes Were Watching God is Janie’s story of awakening from this oppression

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    “Their Eyes Were Watching God “is a story about Janie Crawford. A girl of mixed black and white heritage around the time of slavery. The story revolves around Janie’s relationships with other people. Janie’s search for spiritual enlightenment and a strong sense of her own identity. This isn’t easy when the time you live in only knows you as either black or white. We also look for a sense of identity in our own lives. Do the use of symbols in the story help paint us a picture of what Janie was going

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    Often‚ during the time period of the early 1900’s‚ the voice of women was disregarded and treated as a less important force in the community. The novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God exemplifies this in the form of a frame narrative. The story began with the main character‚ Janie walking in to town looking distraught and exhausted. Janie’s image is symbolic of the idea that she does not have a voice in the community‚ and is tired of fighting for her right to have a say. Janie then began to tell her

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    In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the hardships of being a young black woman in the 1930’s are conveyed through the experiences of Janie Crawford and her self-growth throughout several relationships in her life. Hurston contributes to the theme “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” by exhibiting how the motifs of power‚ judgment and sexism morphed Janie into becoming a resilient female character that challenged the societal norms set for her. This theme was also

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Use of Clothing by Zora Neale Hurston In the novel Their Eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston portrays a woman named Janie’s search for love and freedom. Janie‚ throughout the novel‚ bounces through three different marriages‚ with a brief stint at being a widow in between. Throughout these episodes‚ Hurston uses Janie`s clothing as a visual bookmark of where Janie is in her search for true love and how she is being influenced by those around her. Janie’s

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    In Zora Neale Hurston’s‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the story illustrates a biracial African American woman‚ Janie‚ who is returning to her home in Eatonville. The novel is told in the form of a flashback and gives an account of her early teenage years all the way through her mature adulthood when she returns to her home. During her journey through life Janie is confronted with many different conflicts. She fights both internal and external conflicts‚ such as her search for true love‚ gender roles

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    The review‚ “Between Laughter and Tears” by Richard Wright‚ evaluates the novel‚ “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in a very poor‚ and biased manner. The review begins by roughly summarizing the novel‚ and reflecting on it. Richard Wright believed that Hurston failed to convey any type of message‚ thought or theme. He believed her original audience and motive for writing the book was to entertain the white readers with a story that would make them laugh. All of Wright’s reflections are inaccurate

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    There are two types of relationships in life‚ symbiotic and non-symbiotic. Happiness usually comes from symbiotic relationships and the latter comes from non-symbiotic ones. Zora Neale Hurston explores these ideas in her 1937 novel‚ There Eyes Were Watching God. The novel explores a story of a fair-skinned African American woman‚ Janie Crawford‚ and her evolving selfhood‚ confidence and independence through three marriages in which she experiences trials and finds her purpose. More complex than just

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    New Historicism and Eyes Watching God New Historicism has developed from the "New" Criticism’s inclination to treat works of literature in a historical way. The New Historicist conditions include the fact that images and narratives do important cultural work. They serve as a kind of workshop where cultural problems‚ hopes‚ and obsessions are addressed or avoided. Consequently‚ New Historicists argue that the best backdrop for interpreting literature is to place it in its

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