In the novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford encounters three marriages. One with a man named Logan Hillicks, a second with a man named Joe Starks, and another with a man named Tea Cake. Janie goes through different hardships between each marriage, and learns through each experience.
Janie's relationship with Logan Hillicks was ugly and dull. What led Janie to Logan was that Nanny, her grandmother, felt that he was a sense of security for Janie. Nanny saw Logan as a hard-working farmer, with a comfortable house. Janie saw him as old and unattractive. Janie says, "He look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard." From her marriage with Logan, Janie learns that marriage does not necessarily mean love. She learns that being the wife of a farmer isn't enough for her, and does not like being told what to do. She cannot live a life without any romance.
Janie's relationship with Joe Starks was very close-mouthed. When Janie first meets Joe, she believes that she is in love, but in all reality she is blinded by his faults. Joe values his prized possessions and wealth more than he does his wife. He believes that Janie cannot be socially active with anyone but him. Soon Joe becomes sick, but with the love that Janie has for him. This doesn't allow her to leave him. She stays by his side, and does everything that she can for him. In the end, Joe dies and Janie feels prize winning; as if she has won freedom at last.
Janie's relationship with Tea Cake was extremely powerful, loving, and caring for Janie. When Janie first meets Tea Cake, she is a little shaky with opening up to him, because of her previous marriage with Joe. Tea Cake eventually wins Janie's heart because he is so fun, loving, and nothing like her other husbands. Janie enjoys her freedom with Tea Cake, she is able to speak and do things freely. He encourages Janie, and makes her feel good about herself.
In "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Janie, a main character, goes through her life with three different husbands. ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.14). ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.44). ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.107). ... (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.140). ...
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. ... So Janie starts to tell the story of her life away from Eatonville, mostly affected by the three men she married during the time away. ... Janie's marriage with Logan is one of no real inspiration. ... He looks out for his image in the town, rather than his marriage. ... In conclusion, over some years, Janie marries three men, each of which helps or hinders the growth of Janie as a woman of confidence ...
The Search for Happiness in Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God It is human nature to look for happiness. ... The standing in the community means a great deal, just like Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God illustrates. ... She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days. ... As the book shows the strong relationship between mother and child is important in the African-American community, and the conflict between Janie's idyllic view of marriage and Nanny's wis...
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. The story follows Janie through her childhood, and through three marriages. ... In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses symbolism to show how the society and the time period oppressed women. ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God The protagonist in Their Eyes Were Watching God is named Janie Crawford. ... Her life undergoes the process of self-discovery, as she evolves through her experiences with three distinctly different husbands. ... The tree symbolizes marriage. ... Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks was mostly due to her grandmother's plans. ... They got to go to God, and they got tuh find out about livin" fuh theyselves." ...
Hurston uses a lot of imagery to characterize and distinguish between men and women in "Their eyes were watching god". ... For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time." ... This idea is represented with all three relationships Janine has in the novel. ... He then begins to become abusive, and that marriage ends. ... Both their dreams for love were the same. ...
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a young girl with dreams who matures into a woman as she lives through three different marriages. ... These three marriages are quite similar in ways, yet Janie gains different experiences from each in her long journey to find herself. ... The three steps of Janie's life, which are characterized by each of her three husbands, are very similar in the distinction of Janie's characteristics and the difficulties in each marriage. ... All of Janie's marriages are very much alike as they carry unique challe...
Rejection of Their Eyes Were Watching God In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was published for the first time. ... He said that Their Eyes Were Watching God carries ""no theme, no message, no thought""(Haddox, 1). ... Their marriage comes crashing down, and Janie marries another man, Tea Cake. ... The struggle for power between men and women in Their Eyes Were Watching God made Hurston's contemporary writers very critical and picky. ... Indeed, when first published, Their Eyes Were Watching God seemed like an offensive piece of fiction. ...
In Zora Neale Hurston's, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Starks lives her life in a constant journey for true love. ... She begins to realize that you have to love someone before marriage, because it doesn't necessarily come after. ... She soon realizes that after seven years of marriage, she is not as in love with Joe as she was when they first met. ... She feels as though despite the less glamorous aspects of their life together, she is complete with Tea Cake. ... So, after three marriages and the death of Janie's true love, Janie is able to end her journey. ...
