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    Clay Tucker 10th Grade English Their Eyes Were Watching God Final Essay Due Date: Thursday, December 10th Have Faith in God #Believe The title of Their Eyes Were Watching God is very significant to the story because it gives the reader a clue about Janie’s life. The title suggests that Janie is a person who has some tough experiences in life and has her eyes watching God looking for answers to her problems. Hurston chose this to be the novel’s title to give the reader questions before he or

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    “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a novel where Janie tells her whole story from childhood up to the death of Tea Cake. Some important details that show feminism are when Janie refused to work in the field with her first husband and also how Joe was very dominant and sometimes abusive in her marriage. I believe “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a feminist novel because Janie did not follow the stereotypical of a woman during her time. Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks was arranged, meaning

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    short story “Sweat” and novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the focus is on women who want better lives but face difficult struggles before gaining them. The difficulties involving men which Janie and Delia incur result from or are exacerbated by the intersection of their class, race, and gender, which restrict each woman for a large part of her life from gaining her independence. Throughout a fair part of Zora Neal Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s low class create problems

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    significant than death. In Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie Crawford is plagued by the deaths of loved ones. Janie moves from caregiver to caregiver searching for true love and happiness, only to have it stripped away from her once she finds it in her third husband Tea Cake. At the end of the novel, having realized true love and loss, Janie is a whole woman. Their Eyes Were Watching God portrays the growth of the human spirit

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    Theme Of Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Oprah Winfrey lied on the opposite end of Zora Neale Hurston’s spectrum when she produced her atrocious rendition of Hurston’s stellar novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. She modified characters and symbols, altered the theme and relationships, and utterly desolated the significance of the title, making it almost unrecognizable to someone who has read the book. Winfrey totally eviscerated Hurston’s unsurpassed novel, extrapolating what she thought important without going in depth in to the true

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    “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a novel that was written by Zora Neale Hurston. Some call this novel an “African-American feminist classic” The novel takes place in the early 1900s. It was about a story of Janie Crawford, an African-American women whose life is a quest to find true love and her journey of self-discovery. The novel narrated main character Janie Crawford’s “ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless teenage girl into a woman her finger on the trigger of her own destiny” It was not an

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    The title, Their Eyes Were Watching God, symbolizes the omnipotence of the God, who controls the fate of Janie, highlighting the irrelevance of people’s free will, especially African Americans. It’s indicated that the life of Janie from companionship with Joe to that with Tea Cake is all determined by the God. However, “watching God,” an attitude of Janie, contrasts with the main conformity of African American perspective. The cryptic title parallels the life track of Janie in the whole story. Literally

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    Summer Reading Assignment 1. I read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, copyright in 1937 and has a total of 193 pages. 2. A major theme in Their Eyes Were Watching God is the search for real love. Janie Crawford goes on a journey in order to find her true love and what true love really means. If Janie didn’t have that desire, all the marriages she was in would not have a point. Men don’t always treat her right so when she meets Tea Cake things are different. The search for love

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    Name: Shreya Kaul Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Summary of the Plot: Their Eyes Were Watching God is about Janie Crawford, a middle-aged African-American women. She returns to Eatonville, Florida after many years and Janie explains her life story to a friend named Phoeby. Janie describes how she was raised by her grandmother, Nanny after her real mother left. Nanny forces Janie into marriage against her will to Logan. Logan is a farmer who is much older than

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    Their eyes were watching god thesis paper Throughout life we realize the impact of just words have on our life. There’s many events that have come out of people’s gossip, rumors, or judgmental attitudes. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston, the effects of words had an impact that led to major events in Janie's life, both positive and negative ones. Gossip and rumors was a reoccurring event throughout the book which had major outcomes. Some words people say can have a negative effect

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