In Zora Hurston, Their eyes were watching God, we see a major theme of love and dreams.
Janie has an image of true love, and she strives to attain it. In the story Janie’s ideal future is often presented as romantic, idealistic and symbolic to her naive childhood.
During the whole story the main Character Janie, has been Investigating love her whole life and she had dreams that she’s always wanted to chase but her grandmother’s teachings set her back. When she finally finds love with a man named tea-cake it changes her life and makes her see life in a new way. That’s why I chose these songs. Because They connect, to love and dream chasing. In my first song, “Dreams” by J.cole, we see the theme of love and finding that perfect girl in the lyrics of the song. In the song
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The overall proposition of this song is love, yet the band expresses their love by promising to get their love anything they want. This relates to Joey Stark in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. Joey gives Janie basically anything she wants and tells her that he will show her the world. When Joe first meets Janie he tells her “A pretty doll-baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo’self and eat p’taters dat other folks plant just special for you." Joe explains that he will do anything for her because he loves her. He tells her that she is meant to kick her feet up and relax while someone does the work for her. That’s why I chose the song Say you don’t want it because the band is expressing love by giving the girl that they love anything she wants. In the music video of the song the main singer finds this woman and take her around the city. He buys her food new clothes and eventually at the end they realize they love each other. It connects to joe starks in the beginning of the story promising Janie that she can have everything
The first girl mentioned is Lisa, she feels alone in the world, her mother is a drug addict and likes to bring many men home. The song talks about things in the beginning work out well, but later on in the night, the mom and the man end up fighting. The men beat Lisa and when Lisa tries to tell her mom, her mom does not believe her. Lisa’s story can specifically relate to marriage and family because she does grow up in a functional family. The mother is a drug addict and does not take care of her daughter, it is mentioned that there is no father because the mother brings home men every night. The fact that Lisa does not have a stable family and no one to look up to is affecting her life negatively. The men that her mother does bring home, abuse Lisa and mistreat her. Lisa is a nine year old girl, she is too young to be experiencing the things she does. There is probably no main income for her family either, and if her mom does get paid, she will probably use that money towards buying more drugs. This can relate to the poverty aspect because people who grow up in poverty cannot even afford to survive on minimum wage alone. Also the fact that Lisa’s mom is a single mother means that she is e...
What is one’s idea of the perfect marriage? In Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie has a total of three marriages and her best marriage was to Tea Cake. Janie’s worst and longest marriage was to Joe Starks where she lost her dream and was never happy. The key to a strong marriage is equality between each other because in Janie’s marriage to Joe she was not treated equally, lost apart of herself and was emotionally abused, but her and Tea Cake's marriage was based on equality and she was able to fully be herself.
..., she found her identity. It did not come easy for Janie. It took her years to find out who she really was.
Zora Hurston’s novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” depicts the journey of a young woman named Janie Crawford’s journey to finding real love. Her life begins with a romantic and ideal view on love. After Janie’s grandmother, Nanny, soon grows fearful of Janie’s newfound sexuality and quickly marries Janie off to Logan Killicks, an older land owner with his own farm. Janie quickly grows tired of Logan and how he works her like a slave instead of treating her as a wife and runs away with Joe Starks. Joe is older than Janie but younger than Logan and sweet talks Janie into marring him and soon Joe becomes the mayor of an all African American town called Eatonville. Soon Joe begins to force Janie to hide not only her
...out what is for her and how she wants to live. So in the end, she is where she wants to be. Janie pulls in the horizon that she has spent her whole life searching for. She calls her soul to come in and see. Where once her soul was separate from her, it is now a part of her. Janie grew throughout the novel into a strong and independent woman. Although Janie cared for Tea Cake, she needed to kill him in order to keep him from suffering. Janie shows the reader that she has lived her life fully the way she wanted too and is now able to die having no regrets in life. Although Janie did recognize that most men were obsessed with power and thrived for complete control, she did discover a man who helped push her to her goals. Tea Cake helped Janie a lot, but he made sure she did not rely on him because from the moment they met, he knew how strong of a woman Janie truly was.
In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, by Zora Neale Hurston there were many contrasting places that were used to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of this work.
dreams of a true love that would fulfill both her and the “shore”. While Janie was searching
Life experiences—whether they are positive or negative—mold one’s unfiltered, most genuine self. The more experience one gains in their lifetime, the more growth this inner self will undergo. The things that Janie endured during the course of the novel is more than what most people will go through in a lifetime. Even though Janie had many trials and tribulations in Their Eyes Were Watching God, they just made her a stronger, more independent, self-aware woman.
...to help create a better image and to help viewers or readers really feel what the speaker feels. Lines one, five, eighteen, and twenty-nine to thirty-one clearly state a type of figurative language. In line one, Hunter Hayes uses hyperbole to over exaggerate the fact that without the person he is addressing this song to, he would emotionally fall apart. In line five, the speaker compares a caring person to factors that keep nature happy. Line five uses indirect characterization to show that this girl Hunter Hayes is addressing , has a good heart, not just a beautiful appearance. Lines twenty- nine to thirty-one use a metaphor to compare fairy tales to their everlasting love for each other. “Wanted” by Hunter Hayes and Troy Verges uses figurative language to address the point to someone special that she will always be loved, wanted, and appreciated.
... with financial stable people who would give her the protection she needed. Though through the relationships she realized that these dreams and ideas of what love entitles is different when it comes to the person and their own wisdom and how they interpret life. For Janie her life with Jody made the impact that being with a guy who could buy her everything and anything may not be her dream but rather a person who accepted her for who she was and saw her as an individual rather than an object to own. That is why the peace she was able to receive came from memories with Tea Cake. When it came to Jody she didn’t need any memories or anything because she was done with him even before his death had came. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s relationships with Tea Cake and Jody were impacted from their treatment acceptance of her and how she responds to their deaths.
“You may shoot me with your words,/ You may cut me with your eyes,/ You may kill me with your hatefulness,/ But still, like air, I’ll rise.” were the words written by Maya Angelou in her famous poem “Still I Rise”(Poets.org). She felt the need to express her life motives to the world and hopefully be able to convince others to follow this ideology. These very same words can be reflected in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, where a round character, named Janie Crawford, yearns to live her dreams, but is trapped by life obstacles that try to bring her down. She had to suffer deeply for most of her lifetime in order to break the chains of expectations from others. Throughout Janie’s life she always fought the expectations put on her by Nanny, her husbands, and
Self-knowledge. The one thing that cannot be taught; the one thing that many adults cannot seem to grasp. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie, a middle-aged African American woman, recounts her quest of love. As the quest progresses, Janie, through her relationships, begins to find her definition of love, while Hurston establishes that it is up to the individual to find out what love truly is.
“It was one of the most beautiful and poignious love story I have ever read” (Harpo). In the novel, the relationship between Janie and Tea Cake had little purity but Oprah changed a lot of things that she turned it into a pure true love story. Tea Cake had told Janie that he would never leave her unless he found someone that brought his attention like Janie did in the book. “If Ah ever gits tuh messin’ round another woman it won’t be on account of her age. It’ll be because she got me in de same way you got me—so Ah can’t help mahself” (Hurston 121). Tea cake implied that he would not leave Janie unless he finds someone like Janie; he implies he could cheat. This statement got eliminated so Tea Cake would be seen as pure. Tea Cake had taken Janie’s money and had a party where Tea Cake would only allow the pretty women inside the party Tea Cake threw. “And he stood in the door and paid all the ugly women two dollars to not come in” (Hurston 122). Tea Cake only let the pretty girls in his party. Tea Cake seemed to have attracted women because other females would flirt with him. Nunkie had importance because it showed Tea Cake’s impurity in the novel. “Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous. A little chunky girl took to picking a play out of Tea Cake in the fields and in the quarters” (Hurston 136). The scene had much significance
Through her three marriages, the death of her one true love, and proving her innocence in Tea Cake’s death, Janie learns to look within herself to find her hidden voice. Growing as a person from the many obstacles she has overcome during her forty years of life, Janie finally speaks her thoughts, feelings and opinions. From this, she finds what she has been searching for her whole life, happiness.
In the novel Their Eyes were watching God by Zora Hurston, Zora shows evident gender roles through strong symbols, diction and Juxtaposition. Feminism is one of the biggest issues in this piece of literature; Janie, the main character of the book, faces the struggle to escape society’s expectations that she lives her life doing what she is told, rather than reaching out of the domestic sphere she is in and pursuing her dreams.