Janie, a confused, defenseless, innocent, and beautiful woman, is on her own journey to find out what love really is. Going down this journey, not only does she find her definition of love, she finds freedom, happiness, and inner peace. Growing up as a young girl, she wasn't familiar with acts of love and kindness. Janie would sit in the back yard underneath the peach tree and it's where she spent her younger years. One day she saw a "wonderful movement," which was full of "passionate harmony" of the bees' intervention around the peach tree. This occasion, and the peach tree as a whole, is a symbolization of Janie's idealized views of nature. She didn't know her mother or father, and was raised by her grandmother, who forced her into getting married to her first husband, Logan. Janie didn't know what love was so she believed that if you didn't love someone, if you stick with them, the love will soon come because that's what she was told. In fact she didn't have the slightest idea of what to even expect from or about love. .
Although she didn't know what love was, she didn't like the way her first husband treated her. He talked to her with the least of respect. He walked over her and felt the need to give her demands. Janie wasn't a very defensive person, she didn't have her own voice and didn't stick up for herself. She wasn't your typical "strong black woman." After Janie realized that she was not going to accomplish her goal of finding love with Logan. She began to push away the fact that Nanny told her love will soon come if you stick with them. She began to give up on Logan and their unhappy marriage. She reveals, to herself, the reasons why she didn't want Logan and couldn't be with him any longer. Logan wasn't attractive, he was mean, he was bossy, and just not the one for Janie. Although she gives up on the marriage, she doesn't give up on her pursuit of love.
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My topic is how the character, Janie, is the true villain in the book, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." I have chosen this topic because I believe I can convince the reader that she is the antagonist in the story while others think she is the protagonist. I will support that she didn't truly love any...
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." ... Men have their sights set on things they will most likely never accomplish, and hope that their ship will dock and they will be able to live their dream. ... Women on the other hand have their sights set on dreams that are realistic and they don't just wait for their ship to dock, they "act and do...
Their Eyes Were Watching God The protagonist in Their Eyes Were Watching God is named Janie Crawford. In the novel she narrates her life story to her friend Pheoby Watson. Her life undergoes the process of self-discovery, as she evolves through her experiences with three distinctly different hu...
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Despite its profound position, the novel Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston has been challenged of its place in high school student's education by parents and educational groups. ... However, Their Eyes were Watching God should contain its place in the high school English curriculum because of two reasons: its significance in American History and the moral of love and self-expression. ... "A parent objected to the novel [Their Eyes were Watching God]'s language and sexual explicitness" (Banned And/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course To...
