Their eyes were watching god is a story of a girl named Janie. The story starts with Janie coming to her hometown in a very bad condition. Her hair is messed up‚ her clothes are torn and as soon as she reaches near by her house‚ everyone in her neighborhood starts to look at her and make nosy comments about her. Men talk about how her buttocks and breasts look. Women talk about how excited she was to leave the town and how she has ended up coming back in the town. They also comment about a man and
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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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In the story of Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Janie’s grandmother‚ Nanny who was a former slave arranged Janie’s marriage to successful farmer named Logan Killicks. Nanny wants a good life for Janie feels with his wealth he could give Janie a stable secure life. Nanny feared that if Janie didn’t marry Logan she would end up like Janie’s mother‚ Leafy‚ which was raped by her teacher and ran off. Nanny wanted to live to know that Janie would be ok once she passes away. Janie decides to marry Logan
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a women Janie‚ who arrives at Eatonville Florida lonely after two years; she tells her story about finding happiness. Janie’s story especially the ending where she comes to conclusion about her happiness‚ suggesting that happiness is a trial and error of never knowing what happiness is like until it has been experienced. Janie wants to be happy and to be loved by someone that will make Janie happy; although her nanny thinks that
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Nyeri Bevans Period 5 English 3 Honors April 22‚ 2013 Their Eyes Were Watching God The main character Janie Crawford grows through four of the five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Personal development. Janie starts off in a sense of survival mode‚ since Nannie is the one who makes major personal and financial sacrifices in order to make Janie’s life better than her own and her daughters. Even though life is “good” for Janie she really has no sense of who she is an individual. When Janie begins
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draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.” (p193) Here in Their Eyes Were Watching God we can see the symbol and importance of horizons. Horizons‚ in Janie’s case‚ symbolizes how she matures as a woman‚ and seeks what love is‚ living and making choices as she desires! Meanwhile‚ she has no one to guide her‚ but God is by her side through every step of the way! Before Janie’s grandmother died‚ she caught her kissing. From that day forward
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relationships throughout the book. Nature comes into play as well when defining who the “God” in the title of the book is referring to. The human body is made of organic material‚ thus coming from nature as well‚ so Janie’s physical appearance‚ more
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that brings Their Eyes Were Watching God And Beloved together is the one theme that they have in common which is facing reality. For both Janie and Sethe have to face reality at some point during the books‚ which will go and lead them to their overall either downfall from reality or finally seeing the true side of a situation. Throughout the books Janie and Sethe both have reality checks. Janie reality check is when she realizes how she was being used by her husband. Since they were considered rich
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In some works of literature‚ a character who appears briefly‚ or does not appear at all‚ is a significant presence. In the novel by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the main character‚ Janie‚ has a grandmother‚ Nanny‚ who is a significant presence in the story‚ although she just appears in some parts of the book. Due to Nanny having a negative experience in her life‚ she wants to marry her granddaughter with someone that she believes will take care and protect Janie. Nanny’s beliefs
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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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