She is well known for her exceptional novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." ... " (New York Times; Her Eyes Were Watching Harlem). ... Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ... Two years later, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, which allowed her to produce what would become her most famous work: Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Hurston spent a great deal of time in Jamaica conducting anthropological research after Their Eyes Were Watching God was complete (Biography.com;...

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The use of language is very evident within the first chapter of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. ... We immediately have to read the language of the south and become familiar with their vocabulary. ... Hurston uses language not only by literally using spelling that represents their dialect but also by representing control. ... They were able to have conversations as equals and Janie was able to voice her opinion as needed. Hurston uses the ability to speak and the right to voice opinion as means to empowerment and control. ...

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In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston gives her readers a great deal of atmosphere. ... For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dream mocked to death by time. ... Hurston's use of dialect aids in this shifting of the tone. ... They"ll also add their two cents along the way. ... Janie broke away from these boundaries and would not accept their limitations. ...

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Despite its profound position, the novel Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston has been challenged of its place in high school student's education by parents and educational groups. ... However, Their Eyes were Watching God should contain its place in the high school English curriculum because of two reasons: its significance in American History and the moral of love and self-expression. ... "A parent objected to the novel [Their Eyes were Watching God]'s language and sexual explicitness" (Banned And/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course To...

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author, Zora Neale Hurston uses a technique called symbolism with the characters to create a story. ... She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in seven weeks, which was published on September 18, 1937. ... In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston describes the journey of Janie Crawford, the main character, to find herself. ... In their society the rank of people is determined first by their color, and then by their gender. ... In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses symbolism to show how the society and the time...

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Zora Neale Hurston played a big part in the Harlem Renaissance, and being this she rubbed shoulders with many of the famous writers apart of it. ... In her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the setting, in which was a black town, was the place where she grew up, Eatonville, Florida. Zora Neale Hurston is a 20th century American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. ... Zora Neale is most known for her novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God.... "Their Eyes Where Watching God" is an inspiring and motivating piece of literature. ...

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Two writers were on the front lines of this movement, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison. Their novels, Invisible Man and Their Eyes Were Watching God, probed deeply into the life and culture of the African-American, something that was practically unheard of. ... Both Hurston and Ellison did this beautifully, in that their stories were not forceful nor preachy, but merely simple, candid tales of the lives of two ordinary African-Americans. ... Neither Hurston nor Ellison hid any part of their culture to be politically correct; this fact is especially visible in the aut...

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In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses a variety of literary devices; however, Hurston's use of hair to symbolize sexuality is a prevalent theme throughout the novel. ... This refers to their marriage as a whole, not just his amazement with her hair. ... Zora Neale Hurston effectively uses this device along with several others to enhance the enjoyment of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and also adds a running theme throughout the novel. ...

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a middle-aged black women named Janie Crawford who lives in Eatonville, Florida. ... Zora Hurston gives us a great description of being a women and how we are portrayed to be in the world and also being a black women too. ... Their Eyes Were Watching God was very will written as she gives us an outlook how women was perceived back then and how they was not able to have their own, but somehow the character of Janie Crawford shows us different. Zora Hurston gave us a character that went through different experiences and sh...

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Joe Starks Joe Starks, Janie's second husband in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, had most of the common characteristics of a white individual during the late nineteen century. ... Hurston allows for these commonalities to occur in order to present Joe's personality through his role models (the wealthy, white men) and his attitude toward his wife as well as his environment. ... Other members of the town recognize his actions as boastful and maintained that if others who were educated lived in Eatonville, he would not make such claims in front...

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Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes Were Watching God discusses a hunt for independence and self-reliance through the personal journey of the main character. ... The dream is the truth"(Hurston, 1). ... She describes how "she hated her grandmother Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon"(Hurston 85-86). ... "She knew now that marriage did not make love"(Hurston, 24). ... Her final conclusions are that "they got tuh go tuh God, and they got to find out about livin' fuh theyselves"(Hurston, 183). ...

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The Search for Happiness in Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God It is human nature to look for happiness. ... The standing in the community means a great deal, just like Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God illustrates. ...

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Zora Neale Hurston stresses this necessity of love in a life as she looks back upon Janie's life in the novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God". ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.14). ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.44). ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.107). ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.140). ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie's entire life is one of a journey. ... Zora Neale Hurston chooses to define Janie not by what is wrong in her life, but by what is good in it. Janie changes a lot from the beginning to the end of Their Eyes Were Watching God, but the imagery in her life always conjures positive ideas in the mind of the reader. ... Janie's eyes are still full of pollen dust, and she cannot get her perfect vision of love out of her mind. ... Zora Neale Hurston closes off Their Eyes Were Watching God with one final, poignant image; Janie "[cal...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, centers around the life of Janie Crawford, a black woman in rural Florida. Janie was away for sometime from the town of Eatonville, in which she lived, and at the beginning of the novel, a fri...

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"Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget" " (Hurston 1). The struggle of women in a male-dominated society is a key focal point in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God." ... Characters play a vital role in the development of the plot of "Their Eyes Were Watching God." ... Janie is also an object of lust for all men who lay eyes upon her. ... As seen throughout "Their Eyes Were Watching God," several literary devices are encompassed in the novel. ...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Starks lives her life in a constant journey for true love. ... She feels as though despite the less glamorous aspects of their life together, she is complete with Tea Cake. ...

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In the novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford encounters three marriages. One with a man named Logan Hillicks, a second with a man named Joe Starks, and another with a man named Tea Cake. Janie goes through different hardships between each marriage, and learns t...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie searches for the love she desires by the growing trees and the blooming flowers that inhabit the soil and which Janie walks upon and representing her growth, maturity, and happiness. ... One afternoon, Janie was sitting "under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard" reminiscing her childhood memories (Hurston 10). ... Her body has gone through many physical changes like every girl must go through which will make her even more pleasing to the eyes of many.  ... She and Tea Cake were well matched. ... All they do is love e...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Throughout life, most women find themselves searching for love, happiness, and a sense of self-worth in relationships. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a novel written by Zora Neale Hurston that explains how one woman, Janie Mae Crawford, asserts herself beyond expectation. ... Nanny Crawford, believes that, "black women were the mules of the world", and she does not want Janie to be a mule. ... (Hurston 30). ... Jody looks away from her as, "his eyes stared unwillingly into a corner of the room so Janie knew the futile fight was not with her" (Hurston 87). ...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a young girl with dreams who matures into a woman as she lives through three different marriages. ... For example, as Janie and Jody are discussing their relationship, Janie says, "Naw, Jody, it jus" looks lak it keeps us in some way we ain't natural wid one "nother. ...

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Love plays a very important role in Hurston's "Their Eyes were watching God". ... In conclusion of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie tells Pheoby the whole story. She has learned two life lessons – that people must go out and live their lives (not simply stay home and gossip) and that they must find God for themselves. ...

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston reveals a woman's identity through her struggles in life, her treatment by society, and her thoughts on life. ... She wore overalls that were covered with mud. (189) After all the struggles Janie went through, she finally found who she was. ...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," the main character and protagonist of the novel, Janie Mae Crawford, struggles throughout her journey of finding true love, happiness and her own identity. ... She mentions to Janie that she does not have much time left and prays to see the day when she sees Janie is safe (Hurston 15). ... Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it " (Hurston 23). ... Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels " (Hurston 76). ... When it occurs, Janie and Tea Cake help one another survive the storm (Hursto...

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In the story "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston the protagonist, or main character of the story, Janie Crawford, is alienated by her society and by her culture since as long as she can remember. ... They were absolutely right, Janie was one of those rare people that come along in life and are born into unfortunate circumstances but by God's will were given the character to overcome those circumstances and find their own true identity. ... The people sitting on the porch insult her and once again try to bring her down to their level. These jealousies were best analyzed...

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