of the novel. Through a recalled account of past life events‚ the reader is allowed to grasp an understanding of the life of Janie Crawford. Her life’s trials and tribulations have compelled her into the woman she is‚ a woman of self-determination who has abandoned the idea of the need for a male presence‚ as a result of three unsuccessful marriages. Coming into her own‚ Janie battles with society’s ignorant definition of gender roles and relations versus her personal views of self progression and
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by Zora Neale Hurston follows the journey of the central character Janie Crawford. Janie spends her time in southern Florida trying to find her voice and true love. During this process‚ she finds herself in two marriages with men that greatly differ from each other. These two men go by the names of Joe Starks and Vergile “Tea Cake” Woods. They both have very different impacts on Janie’s path to achieve her life goals. After Janie has a failed marriage to her very first husband Logan kellicks‚ she
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entirely on the love story between reformed playboy‚ Verigible Woods (aka‚ Tea Cake) and Janie. However there were so many more layers to the novel‚ including studies in developmental psychology and cultural anthropology. On a psychological level‚ we see the main character‚ Janie Crawford‚ grow through four of the five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Personal Development (depending on which version you read). Janie starts out in survival mode‚ or at least Nannie‚ her guardian- grandmother‚ is on that
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person’s decision to use his voice by depicting the relationships Janie Crawford experiences. Janie’s caretaker as she grows up is Nanny‚ her grandmother who believes she knows what is best for Janie. Nanny wants to marry Janie off quickly to Logan Killicks‚ so that after Nanny died‚ Janie would be protected. Although Nanny believes she is guaranteeing Janie’s safety‚ she is also quelling Janie’s voice and her ideas of love. Janie believes in marrying for love and after marrying Logan‚ believes
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her growth‚ and her hair represents her independence. Janie Crawford has been under someone’s watchful eye her entire life‚ starting with her grandma who made her marry an old farmer for the sole reason of economic stability. That led her to runaway with Joe Starks‚ but he turned out to be verbally and physically abusive. When she finally meets a respectful young man named Teacake‚ Janie lets her hair down both figuratively and literally. Janie has been under someone’s watchful eye for the majority
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The Harlem Renaissance was the beginning of African Americans finding new cultural identities 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
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God writes about an African American woman named Janie Crawford who is in search of her inner self. While maturing‚ she develops more sexual desires which led to her three marriages. In The Kiss of Memory‚ Tracy L. Bealer talks about how love can be so many things and can be a struggle for Janie from her three very different marriages. Developing sexual desires made Nanny realize that a new life should be put ahead of Janie. Nanny then forces Janie into her first marriage with a man named Logan Killicks
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2013 Their Eyes Were Watching God The main character Janie Crawford grows through four of the five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Personal development. Janie starts off in a sense of survival mode‚ since Nannie is the one who makes major personal and financial sacrifices in order to make Janie’s life better than her own and her daughters. Even though life is “good” for Janie she really has no sense of who she is an individual. When Janie begins her story her first actual memory is having no personal
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Alabama. In 1937‚ which was around the time of the Harlem Renaissance‚ Mrs.Hurston had published Their Eyes Were Watching God. Their Eyes Were Watching God is about Janie Mae Crawford‚ a middle aged black woman named who returns to Eatonville‚ Florida and tells her friend her life story‚ she talks about her grandmother‚ Nanny Crawford‚ and her first husband Logan Killicks‚ who was not romantic‚ and treated her like he owned her. Her second husband Jody Starks‚ who had stolen her away and treated
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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD ESSAY ¬¬ Janie Crawford is surrounded by outward influences that contradict her independence and personal development. These outward influences from society‚ her grandma‚ and even significant others contribute to her curiosity. Tension builds between outward conformity and inward questioning‚ allowing Zora Neal Hurston to illustrate the challenge of choice and accountability that Janie faces throughout the novel. Janie’s Grandma plays an important outward influence
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