Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God Prepared Reading
Section A: Paragraph Responses
Race
An important assertion that shows up multiple times throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is race. Throughout the story there was constant racial prejudice coming from both, the African American race and the Whites. A quote that supports this assertion is, “Ah thought you would ‘preciate good treatment. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act,” (Hurston, 30). This is what Janie’s first husband, Logan Killicks says to her when she doesn’t do work that is outside the house, such as farming. Logan says she acts like a “white folk,” in the novel and throughout the time period in which the novel takes place, people with fair skin were considered prettier and superior. People with darker skin were inferior and according to Janie’s Grandmother, the women were beneath the already inferior African American race. By say that she acts like a “white folk” he was trying to say that she was acting much more superior than him she acts like she doesn’t have to do anything. Zora Neale Hurston is trying to show the clear distinction between the race and the extent of the racial prejudice that happens, not just in the past time period when this book takes place, but just in general there is so much racism everywhere, even now.
Security
Security is an assertion that presents itself multiple times throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Security in the novel is presented through marriage and love, meaning that marriage can give security. This assertion mainly goes towards women because in the novel women are explained as “the mules of the world” meaning that they are the bottom of the human hierarchy. A quote that supports this assertion is, “But the muck meant Tea Cake and Tea Cake wasn’t there. So it was just a great expanse of black mud. She had given away everything in their little house except a package of garden seed
Section A: Paragraph Responses
Race
An important assertion that shows up multiple times throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is race. Throughout the story there was constant racial prejudice coming from both, the African American race and the Whites. A quote that supports this assertion is, “Ah thought you would ‘preciate good treatment. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act,” (Hurston, 30). This is what Janie’s first husband, Logan Killicks says to her when she doesn’t do work that is outside the house, such as farming. Logan says she acts like a “white folk,” in the novel and throughout the time period in which the novel takes place, people with fair skin were considered prettier and superior. People with darker skin were inferior and according to Janie’s Grandmother, the women were beneath the already inferior African American race. By say that she acts like a “white folk” he was trying to say that she was acting much more superior than him she acts like she doesn’t have to do anything. Zora Neale Hurston is trying to show the clear distinction between the race and the extent of the racial prejudice that happens, not just in the past time period when this book takes place, but just in general there is so much racism everywhere, even now.
Security
Security is an assertion that presents itself multiple times throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Security in the novel is presented through marriage and love, meaning that marriage can give security. This assertion mainly goes towards women because in the novel women are explained as “the mules of the world” meaning that they are the bottom of the human hierarchy. A quote that supports this assertion is, “But the muck meant Tea Cake and Tea Cake wasn’t there. So it was just a great expanse of black mud. She had given away everything in their little house except a package of garden seed