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. ... Hurston uses the mule to symbolize the black woman. ... Hurston also uses marriage to symbolize the black woman's oppression. ... Another symbol used by Hurston is the head rags. ... In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses symbolism to show how the society and the time period oppressed women. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"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. ... Zora Hurston gave us a character that went through different experiences and showed how it molded her into becoming the woman she is at the end of the book, a strong independent woman. ... Hurston gives you a great detail and descriptions of women in the book. Overall Zora Neale Hurston did an outsta...

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Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent writer and anthropologist of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930's and 40's was the most published African American woman. ... Ah don't want yo" feathers always crumpled by folks throwin" up things in yo" face" (Hurston 20). Nanny wanted Janie to marry Logan Killicks, but according to Janie "he look like some ole skull-head in de grave yard" (Hurston 28). ... She's uh woman and her place is in de home" (Hurston 69). ... "There are years that ask questions and years that answer,"(Hurston 21), and Janie has finally reached the ones that answer. ...

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston; the author follows the protagonist, Janie Crawford. ... She said she did not like the way he looked, "his belly is too big, now, and his toe-nails look lak mule foots" (Hurston, 24) and "he don't even never mention nothin' pretty" (Hurston, 24). ... Somebody thought it natural for her to play" (Hurston, 96). ... That's what made Janie like it" (Hurston, 102). ... Here was peace" (Hurston, 193). ...

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In life everyone tries to find his true identity. For some it comes naturally. For others, it might take years to find, or it might never be found at all. 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...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston disregarded the typical gender conventions of her time when she created Janie Mae Crawford, the main character in her book. ... (Hurston 11). ... Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it" (Hurston 23). ... Old as you is" (Hurston 79). ... (Hurston 79). ...

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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". Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. ...

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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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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. ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is a novel about self-discovery, in which Janie Crawford is determined to find true love in marriage, and live life according to her terms. ...

• Word Count: 1903
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• Grade Level: High School