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Their Eyes Were Watching GodThough I read a variety of books throughout my AP Literature and Composition class this year, the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, stood out among the others. It tells a story about a woman named Janie and her journey of finding true love. Janie’s dream of true love first blooms while she is lying under a pear tree at the age of 16 after connecting a bee in a pear tree blossom to love. From this point on, Janie yearns for true love. Her journey

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Janie strives to live the life of her imagination by attempting to achieve the dreams of her own. Their Eyes Were Watching God reveals Janie Crawford as a sixteen year old girl who aims to discover new adventures and find love within her marriages. Janie’s grandmother demands she settles down with a decent man that could bring her a bright future. As a matter of fact, Janie originally marries Logan Killicks in order to fulfill her grandmother’s demands. With their marriage progressing without love

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12 December, 2014Their Eyes Were Watching God Book vs. MovieIn Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford explored a whole new world to find herself. Hurston’s book focused on Janie’s personal prosperity and development. Oprah Winfrey’s movie based on Hurston’s focused primarily on Janie and Tea Cake’s love story. Because of the changes made, the movie does not resemble Hurston’s book.Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God focusing on Janie’s personal

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out their own," - Unknown. This is very applicable to a majority of the characters in Their Eyes Were Watching God. written by Zora Neale Hurston. This novel consists of a woman's journey in marrying three men and the mixed results of each unique relationship. Although each marital relationship varied from the others in many ways, one thing remained the identical: each was flawed and defense mechanisms were used by the characters in an attempt to cope. After all, the only way Janie, the wife, Joe

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Mae Crawford’s life experiences. Throughout the book, the author goes over everything she went through with each of her husband’s Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cakes. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses concrete, cacophonous, and specific diction in order to explain the emotions and situations Janie faced with each of her husband’s. The use of concrete, cacophonous, and specific diction impact the

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Evette Galvan11/03/14H. English EssayTheir Eyes Were Watching God: How Janie Acquired Her Own VoiceMany people let their lives be controlled by someone else, but eventually have the ability to stand up for themselves and become their own person. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, has to go through many hardships to finally gain her independence. Janie thought that her dreams of finding real love were over, but that all changed when she met a new man that allowed

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Hurston takes her readers on an adventure with the protagonist, Janie, through metaphorical symbols underscoring Janie’s character development. Hurston’s usage of natural objects in the world, such as a pear tree, horizon, and hurricane, correlate with one another allowing the reader analyze the three different marriages that take place in various events Janie goes through in her life. From viewing the act of sex through pollination, a destination

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Their Eyes Were Watching GodLove can appear out of nowhere.In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, She introduces us to Janie a mixed woman who struggles with finding her vision of love. When she meets her later husband Teacake we see that her vision of love is slowly coming true. Hurston uses the relationship Janie has with Teacake to show that Janie found the love she envisioned when she was a child. When we first begin the book we are shown a young Janie and we see

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Individualism in Their Eyes Were Watching GodIn her depicting Janie’s life, Zora Neale Hurston aims at expressing the will of Janie to achieve her individuality in a male-dominated society. Janie requests her rights to express her feelings. Her need to find a loving man is the most challenging issue for her. After passing through four experiences three of them are marriages, Janie finally comes to understand the real meaning of love and independence. 2.1Janie’s Request for her Individuality

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Jada BrittProfessor Lena AmpaduEnglish 23300111 May 2015The Disappointment of Their Eyes Were Watching God This essay will explain why the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God differed from the book itself from which it was made. In the book version of Their Eyes Were Watching God the idea of fellowship is portrayed profusely, but the movie has a different viewpoint. The movie over sexualized the book to make it seem more appealing to the people, but it makes the movie seem poor of quality

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