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.…
“The Kiss of Memory”: The Problem of Love in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is an analyzation of African American love that Hurston portrays throughout the novel. This focuses on the main character, Janie, and her third husband, Tea Cake. The article mainly covers the couple’s sexual desires, domestic violence when all hell breaks loose, and their jealousy towards others. Tracy Bealer (the article author) also analyzed racism within relationships, especially towards African American relationships.…
In chapter five of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston tells the readers about Jody and Janie arrive in Eatonville, Florida to find that it consists of little more than a dozen shacks. Jody introduces himself to two men, Lee Coker and Amos Hicks, and asks to see the mayor; the men reply that there is none. After buying land, Jody announces his plans to build a store and a post office and calls a town meeting. Jody hires Coker and Hicks to build his new shop and quickly becomes mayor after recruiting new residents and rebuilding the town.While this was happening, Janie is told to not speak in front of crowds and feels alone because of her husband.…
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston exposes the story of the love life of Janie. The relationship between Janie and her third husband, Tea Cake, was above and beyond the most positive of the three relationships with men she had and summoned forth her best assets. The relationships she had with these three men permitted her to be subjected to her first true love, expand her knowledge of working and taking care of herself, and discover a new culture/society.…
A month after Nanny died Janie realized that being married to Logan was not going to bring about love. Zora Neal Hurston states “The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman”(25). Janie came to the realization that she does not want Logan, and Janie’s experience with being married to Logan had crushed her dream. Janie becoming a woman at the death of her dream means that womanhood is about hardship, and Janie had now experienced the hardship of womanhood. Janie Ultimately does not love Logan, and she now realizes that love cannot be learned with…
“Mary Helen Washington On Hurston’s Failure To Create A Genuinely Liberated Female Voice” criticizes the feminist viewpoints on Hurston’s writing in Their Eyes Were Watching God. The article is interesting because it goes against all the feminist viewpoints out there about Janie being a strong, independent women. Instead, the author uses evidence from the book to point out that throughout the book Janie is pushed into the “female” role. Feminist writers see Janie as this empowering female character, whereas the author of the article sees Janie as a women being pushed down by her male counterparts. The author feels strongly about the feminist ideas, however she believes that Hurston saw Janie being pushed down for being a female rather than…
The Not So Great Nation of the Present John L. Sullivan would be utterly disappointed if he were living in the America we are today. His writing “The Great Nation of Futurity” was created off of his love for our nation. He says the foundation of our nation was built on “the great principle of human equality,” which is not being displayed today as it were in the 1800’s (Sullivan 4). Sullivan would roll over in his grave had he heard of the mass shooting in Las Vegas last month on October 2nd. At least fifty people were killed and over four-hundred more injured.…
The way that some authors write show where they are from, Zora Neale Hurston writes in a way that shows her upbringing in the south.Being born in Notasulga Alabama, she developed an accent and shows that in her writing, specifically her dialogue. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Hurston uses a type of diction and voice that reveals her background and…
The novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, focuses on a woman named Janie Crawford and her adventure for love and her struggle for independence. Since both of Janie’s parents were not in her life, she is forced to live with her grandmother. One day, Janie meets a boy and kisses him; this single action dictates where the rest of her life…
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie’s three husbands treat Janie physically and emotionally different, but their work ethics are the same. Janie’s first husband Logan Killicks treats Janie emotionally similar to the way Joe Starks treated Janie and Tea-Cake treated Janie different emotionally compared to Logan and Joe. But when it came to pleasing Janie, Jody and Tea Cake were very similar. These three men change the course of Janie’s life and impact the decisions she makes when it comes to finding a new suitor.…
All throughout Their Eyes were Watching God, the main character, Janie, seems to swoon over her third husband Tea Cake. She’s obsessed with the fact that he makes her feel worthy or even smart unlike her other husbands, Joe and Logan. He actually takes the time to teach her how to play checkers, something she was never allowed to do. Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods also makes Janie young and spontaneous. Their adventure filled relationship make her glow inside. To the sudden night fishing trip, to romantic picnics, even to dancing until her feet hurt at Jacksonville clubs.They way he cuddled up to her scratching her head and petting her hair make her feel beautiful and loved deeply. All these factors may all make Tea Cake seem like a “good” man, but Janie really fails to narrate or even look into his cons, which happen to big ones overcasting his pleasant traits. He’s stolen her money without her permission, caught practically cheating on Janie with another…
“Look deep into nature,and then you will understand everything better.”Albert Einstein.”Beast of the Southern Wild” was a film that was directed by Benh Zeitlin and was released by June 27,2012. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” was a novel that was written by Zora Hurston and was published in September 18,1937.The film and the novel had some similarities such as having connection to nature,mothers relationship,and what happened in the big storm.…
In “Finding Haiti, Finding History in Zora Neale Hurtson’s Their Eyes Were Watching God” , Stuelke examines damaging affects of imperialism on the black population in Haiti and how it directly correlates with mistreatment and institutionalized regression of African Americans in the United States. This article is relevant to Their Eyes Are watching God because it portrays the dual control that the U.S government holds over both Haitians and African Americans, which Hurston depicts through the various encounters that , the main character, Janie faces. Historically, Haiti was an island conquered by the French that was used for the production of sugar cane , which of course involved slave labor. The slaves eventually gained their freedom when they…
The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, illustrated how black women during the early 1900’s were constantly marginalized and silenced. In this time period black women did not have the same respect as men or white women when they gave their opinions and were often ignored. Black women were also perceived to be less intelligent and ____ by others. Hurston portrayed how black women were marginalized and silenced by others through the protagonists’ relationships with other people.…
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.…