Finding Yourself To be different is to be unique and to stand by your own judgment. Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Hurston‚ is a coming of age novel with a heartwarming romance in the 1930s by showing the integrity of the narrator‚ Janie Crawford whom tells her viewpoint of what it took to find love‚ by first finding herself. Alike‚ from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s excerpt Self-Reliance and Henry David Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience‚ these transcendentalist thinkers also believed individuals
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Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7‚ 1903 in Eatonville‚ Florida. She won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Barnard College‚ becoming its first black student. She got he B.A. in anthropology. Her memories of the self-segregated Eatonville community stayed close to her heart‚ leading her to oppose school desegregation in the 1950s‚ against the rising tide of the Civil Rights Movement. In “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Hurston reveals a fundamental insight into human nature:
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from the South and the Caribbean. There are many famous writers in the age of Harlem Renaissance included the poets like James Weldon Johnson (1871 –1938)‚ Marcus Garvey (1887 –1940) Claude McKay (1889 –1948)‚ Alain LeRoy Locke (1885 –1954)‚ Zora Neale Hurston (1891 –1960)‚ Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 –1961) ‚ W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 –1963)‚ Langston Hughes (1902 –1967)‚ (Jean Toomer (1894 –1967)‚ Louis Armstrong (1901 –1971) ‚ Duke Ellington (1899 –1974)‚ Josephine Baker (1906 –1975)‚ Aaron Douglas
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Journey to Happiness Happiness cannot be explained in a simple definition; however Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ explains how to achieve happiness. “Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God‚ and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves” (192). The only way Janie was going to find happiness was to go out and find it on her own. One would think that finding happiness is a simple thing to do. However‚ Janie shows us otherwise
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The novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” written by Zora Neale Hurston is praised as one of the greatest works of American literature due to the outstanding use of figurative language and presentation of such controversial topics. Such as women empowerment and the true nature of relationships. The main character‚ Janie is heavily influenced by the people around her‚ and due to such actions‚ she is unable to reach her dreams‚ or her horizon. In TEWWG‚ two characters in particular‚ her grandmother
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Cited: Kennedy‚ X.J.‚ and Dana Gioia. Literature An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama‚ and Writing. Sixth . Boston: Longman‚ 2010. Print. Fear‚ Freedom and the Perils of Ethnicity: Otherness in Kate Chopin ’s ’Beyond the Bayou ’ and Zora Neale Hurston ’s ’Sweat ’. Suzanne D. Green. Southern Studies 5.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1994): p105-124. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale‚ 2005. From Literature Resource Center. Kennedy‚
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie’s journey towards spiritual enlightenment and her development of individuality‚ largely through Janie’s relationships with others. Hurston uses the themes of power‚ control‚ abuse‚ and respect‚ in Janie’s relationships with Nanny‚ Killicks‚ Starks‚ and Tea Cake‚ to effectively illustrate how relationships impact identity and self-growth. It is Janie’s relationship with Nanny that first suppresses her self-growth
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Passage: Chapter 20 Page 183-184 In the novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston creates a sense of closer and fulfillment in this particular passage by employing both auditory and visual repetition/ imagery‚ comparisons with metaphors and personification to demonstrate that peace and amity are both obtainable through love even after going through the toughest of circumstances. Hurston’s method of utilizing repetition conveys her message about the end of Janie’s journey and the
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and ideals as America reached the end of slavery. One of these African Americans was Janie Crawford whose upbringing was different from that of the slave period. Janie‚ the main character in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937) by novelist Zora Neale Hurston is a perfect example of showing that humans have the skill to learn and grow by trial and error. She experienced life’s offers different from those around her and this is conveyed through her value of love repeatedly compared to her friends
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Janie’s entire life is one of a journey. She lives through a grandmother‚ three husbands‚ and innumerable friends. Throughout is all‚ she grows closer and closer to her ideals about love and how to live one’s life. Zora Neale Hurston chooses to define Janie not by what is wrong in her life‚ but by what is good in it. Janie changes a lot from the beginning to the end of Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ but the imagery in her life always conjures positive ideas in the mind of the reader. <br> <br>Janie’s
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