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. Men were looked to as the superior being, the one who women were supposed to look up to and serve. ... "She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." ... "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new." ...

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

She is well known for her exceptional novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." ... " (New York Times; Her Eyes Were Watching Harlem). ... Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ... Two years later, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, which allowed her to produce what would become her most famous work: Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Hurston spent a great deal of time in Jamaica conducting anthropological research after Their Eyes Were Watching God was complete (Biography.com;...

• Word Count: 1464
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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School