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Zora Neal Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God (with Essay Prompt)

78) - Janie: " "Nah Ah ain't no young woman no mo" but den Ah ain't no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah"m uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it. Dat's uh whole lot more"n you kin say. You nig bellies round here and put out a lot of brag but tain't nothing to it but yo" big voice. Humph! Talkin" "bout me looking" old! When you pull down yo" britches you look lak de change uh life." (Pg. 79) This fight is the gun shot which marked the first part of the internal change, which Janie went through. From this point on the authors use of free indirect discourse increases in order to show Janie's newly found self, which breaks through the voice of the narrator. Illustrating that for once Janie finally understands to the fullest what kind of marrow she wants out of her life "These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them through Logan and Joe. She felt like slepping some of them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of cheesy cats, trying to make out they looked like love." (Pg. 90).
             As Jody became more and more sickly Janie realizes that Jody had no idea what type of person she really is, and how far they had grown apart over the years: "She stood until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside their to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over." (Pg. 72) Nearer to his death though she has the epiphany that she must "talk to a man who was ten immensities away." (Pg. 84) in order to finally let Jody know who she really was, and stop taking part in this charade of a life: "Fear lest she depart while she was trembling upstairs nerved her and she was inside the room before she caught her breath" (Pg. 84) - " "Ah ain't here tuh blame nobody.


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