... on a lifelong journey seeking personal fulfillment and true love. This narrative is told in deep perspective through the use of key characters, plot, and rich symbolism. Characters play a vital role in the development of the plot of "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Janie, the protagonist, undergoes change and growth as the plot advances, battling oppression from a male-dominated society, ... partake in. Each of these symbolic objects and events attaches the readers to Janie in her struggle for independence. As seen throughout "Their Eyes Were Watching God," several literary devices are e...

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... at many quintessential elements a great novel possesses such as: story plot, themes, lesson, and language. To create these things an author must establish a variety of characters, as do in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Chaim Potok's The Chosen, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. The reoccurring factor of opposite characters transpires in all three novels. Which gives depth and fulfillment ... to these novels. To begin with, David Malter and Reb Saunders, two characters from The Chosen, differ greatly. Reb Saunders, the Hassidic Rabbi and father of Dan...

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• Grade Level: High School

... "rich and strange." Zora Neale Hurston writes about her own sea change in "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," and she uses this symbolic transformation as one of the themes of Their Eyes Were Watching God. In the very beginning of the novel, Hurston describes the differences between the ways that men and women each think about the future. Men wish for things like "ships at a distance." Some ... of them realize their dreams, and some of them don't, but they all dream. Women, according to Hurston, "forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don ... upo...

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• Grade Level: High School