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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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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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. ... She describes how "she hated her grandmother Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon"(Hurston 85-86). ... 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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"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. ... Janie being a naive women believed that their marriage still can work. ... She wants to run away but she knows there was no were else for her to go. ... Other couples are jealous of their relationship. ... 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. ...

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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. ... In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston employs slang and colloquial language throughout the novel. ... They were flawed. They were confused. ...

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He says, "I doubt that you would[ ]commend the policemen[ ]If you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls" (154). ... For them to argue against the word of God would be sacrilegious. ... He asks the clergy if they would wait to act against racism if they had watched "vicious mobs lynch (their) mothers and fathers at will and drown (their) sisters and brothers at whim" (145). ... All through the letter, King questions the laws of humans compared to that of God's laws. ... He obviously is disgraced by those who claim to be of the Christian faith and belief...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is enslaved by this emphasis on materialism and Nanny's unattainable aspirations. ... However, even when Janie escapes this unsuccessful marriage in hopes of finding freedom and happiness, she ends up becoming slave to Jody's god-like aspirations. ... The idea of Janie's "silent rebellions" is troubling as well because, while blacks were officially freed of the slave system in 1863, their metaphorical slavery is that they live in a world where they cannot speak and must internalize their pain. ... The narrator c...

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This migration changed their image from rural to urban, and from peasant to sophisticate. ... Blacks began to create their own types of music, art, and literature as they began their move towards Harlem, all having similar backgrounds and a sense of pride. ... African-Americans intensified their pride in culture and their yearning for acceptance as equals in the United States. ... She is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States, and this is shown in her best-known novel Their Eyes Were W...

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