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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The main issue you will need to resolve before writing this paper is your definition of feminism. Evaluating someone as a "feminist" means having some clear sense of what does or does not...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The first step you need to take in this assignment is to decide what sort of essay you are writing. There are several possible approaches to writing literary essays. In general, instructors include...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, some people of Eatonville, usually men, like to gather on the porch at Joe Starks' store to tell stories and to socialize. One favorite story...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Three of many images that have symbolic meaning are the pear tree and the bees, the dusty road, and Janie's hair. First, the pear tree, its blossoms, and the bees are introduced in Chapter Two....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's three marriages shape, to a certain degree, Janie's individual identity and sense of self. Janie does not have a choice in marrying Logan Killicks--her...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, arguably one of the most prominent themes of the novel is living one's dreams. In the second chapter of the novel, the narrator reveals Janie's beliefs about love...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Leafy Crawford is Janie's mother. Leafy is mixed race, as Nanny was raped by the slave master in charge of her plantation. Throughout Leafy's childhood, Nanny...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Both Joe Starks and Tea Cake are strong, dominant men who are leaders in their communities. Since they are leaders, they like to make their own decisions without anyone's help--least of all...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is full of examples of figurative language. I will quote a few from Chapters 2 and 3 and explain how they impact the meaning of Hurston's novel....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford drives women crazy with envy and men crazy with lust. Chapter one shows Janie walking through Eatonville to get to her house, and the way the townspeople respond to her proves the...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Zora Neale Hurston’s classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie Crawford, steadily grows into an independent woman. Indeed, her relationship with Tea Cake, which is...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In the opening scene of Their Eyes Were Watching God, the narrator describes the differences in the nature of men versus the nature of women in terms of following their dreams. The narrator says...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The opening scene of Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God shows Janie coming back from her excursion away from home with her third husband, Tea Cake. She is dressed in overalls, which accentuate...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's learning to shoot even better than Tea Cake foreshadows her having to shoot him at the end of the novel. In the setting of the novel, 1930's Florida, there...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Chapter 12, Sam Watson warns Pheoby that she had better talk some sense into Janie before Janie is taken advantage of by Tea Cake. Sam thinks that Tea Cake is just after Janie's inheritance, and...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston is famous for defying traditional folklore and storytelling conventions and in her famous work, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," she merges feminism with folklore and the classic...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The pear tree functions as a key plot device in the beginning of the novel, as Janie spends much of her adolescence under the tree, pondering the fertility of the nature she sees around her and...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston's writing style in Their Eyes Were Watching God is highly literary and figurative, despite the informal-sounding dialect that we hear all throughout the dialogue. So it's natural to notice...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Nanny's motivation is out of love and concern for her granddaughter. It is not entirely pure, but it is certainly not malevolent. When she sees "Johnny Taylor lacerating Janie with a kiss," Nanny...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie and Tea Cake spend a great deal of their life together in the Florida Everglades, or "the Muck." Here they work together, build...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
One of the most tragic parts of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston occurs in Chapter 18. In this chapter, Janie Crawford, the main character, and her husband Tea Cake experience the...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered a feminist novel because the protagonist, Janie, finds her independence through her lived experiences, and she solidly develops her identity as a black...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Logan Killicks is Janie's first husband, and he dominates her by not giving her a chance to become her true self. Janie's grandmother is happy to have Janie marry...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston details the life and struggles of a woman named Janie Crawford. In the novel, Janie has three significant relationships with men. Each one helps...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The opening lines of Their Eyes Were Watching God point out the centrality of the motif of dreaming in the novel. Furthermore, they establish a difference between men's and women's dreams: while...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, uses two distinct writing styles in the novel. The voice of the narrator is eloquent and poetic as it seeks to reflect on the...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
One central theme in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God concerns our ability to fulfill our dreams. The novel opens with a passage in which Hurston uses the noun ships as a symbol...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Racial identity is important in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God because the novel celebrates Janie's coming of age as a black woman. Other women in town are jealous of Janie's physical...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods was Janie’s third husband. They married after Jody Stark, Janie’s second husband, passed on. He was a gambler, who early on in the relationship took some money...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie’s quest to be treated as an individual and her determination to be treated equally helped her succeed in reclaiming her identity. The fight for her individuality was clearly depicted in her...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pheoby's moral code differs from that of the town in that she is genuinely concerned about what has happened to Janie. In the first chapter of the novel,...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie gains self-knowledge as a result of her experiences with love and life. At the end of the novel, Janie understands what life offers. She has gained this insight because of her...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
A great deal of figurative language can be found in even just the first page of Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ones to particularly watch out for are metaphors and...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The town of Eatonville is central to the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, showing a model of a free black society rather than one existing in the context of slavery or...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Eatonville, Florida, the actual home town of Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was one of the first independent black communities in the southern United States. It is...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Logan Killicks is the husband who is the least helpful to Janie in terms of her development as a woman because he is so much older than she; she can find nothing in him to love, and he expects her...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In a sense, all three husbands help Janie become a strong and independent character but in very different ways. Her third and final husband was the most intentionally helpful of the three. Logan...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Disastrous times do much to test the mettle of people, and the hurricane certainly challenges Janie's survival instincts, her will, and her love for Tea Cake. Because of the hurricane, Janie...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was set in Eatonville, Florida, an independent black town in Florida, where black people were politicians, teachers, and businesspeople rather...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford Killicks Starks Woods is the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Nanny Crawford was Janie's grandmother. She was originally a domestic slave, who was...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie's grandmother, Nanny, was born into slavery. That did much to shape her outlook on life. While a slave, she was the lover of her white master. She became pregnant and gave birth to a mixed...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie grows up under the care of her grandmother because her mother ran off and left baby Janie behind. After returning to Eatonville, Janie begins to open up about her history to her friend,...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie Crawford is described as having a super curvy figure and long, heavy waist-length hair that hangs down in either one...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, one stereotype Zora Neale Hurston wants to put an end to concerns the inferiority of the African-American race, a stereotype that also makes African Americans look...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
When Janie is with Tea Cake, she is able to define herself as the person she wants to be. Janie's understanding of love and the person she wants to be are linked to one another. As a young person,...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
With Tea Cake Janie recaptures the vitality of her youth and a mature freedom; with Joe she had lost her own identity and grown hollow. When Janie first meets Joe Starks, he is taken with her,...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Eatonville, modeled after the real township of this name, is a successful community run solely by African Americans. As the real-life home of Zora Neale Hurston, this setting adds authenticity and...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
As is usually the case, there is much of the artist in the art. Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1891, but no birth records can be found. Her family lived in the town of Eatonville, Florida, the...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston describes a social hierarchy where the white male reigns and the black female exists metaphorically as the lowly mule. Victimized at the bottom...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Short answer: Janie's need for love involves genuine passion and love, as well as a sense of equality and friendship. With these she is satisfied; without all of them, Janie is not happy and seeks...
