In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie battles to find individualism within herself. During the time of "Their Eyes", the correct way to treat women was to show them who was in charge and who was inferior. ... To find out what will happen in a persons future, they need to live their life on their own and not have it planned for them. ... He saved her from the boringness of their dull marriage. ... "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new." ...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Janie's Quest for Identity Throughout much of history, many women have spent a significant amount of their lives in search of their own voice and ways to represent themselves and their lifestyles. Some of the ways they have been able to convey their story's is through literature, folk tales and other forms of story telling. ... 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. ... A few months into their marriage, Janie sits down with...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School