Themes In Their Eyes Were Watching God

Janie is a blossoming flower coming into the intense world of womanhood. Even though she is physically a woman, her emotional needs are not fully completed until the very end of the book. She had pests who tried to poison her roots and trim her stems and pick the flower that is Janie. In the book, Janie is constantly looking for the bee that will make her flower bloom. There are three main themes of the natural world that present themselves in this book: A pear tree, the horizon, and the hurricane. These three natural occurrences represent her 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
Weather and plant life in novels is often very reflective of the theme of the book or how the main character is feeling at that moment, however, in Their Eyes Were Watching God the weather and plant life is reflective of Janie’s three relationships. Joe, or Jody, Starks is Janie’s second husband, but out of the three of them, he is her worst. Jody and Janie’s relationship is the representative of the hurricane at the end of the book. The reason for this comparison is because their relationship started off well