Their Eyes Were Watching Reflection

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching, written by Zora Neale Hurston, was a great inspirational book. Hurston wrote this fictional novel based on the society around early 1900s. She was born in the town Eatonville, Florida, where the characters were from in this book. This novel is one of my favorite books that I have read in the class because even though it was fiction, the book was realistic and historical. I enjoyed it because Hurston wrote this novel as the main character Janie Crawford telling her whole life story to her best friend Pheoby Watson. In the beginning of the novel, I was confused by the way the characters talked, talking in a southern accents but through the middle I started to pick up on the way they spoke. I also liked how Hurston toward the end of the novel when the hurricane was occurring, she mentioned the title of the book, “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God” (151). I

The day of the hurricane Janie and Tea Cake did not believe the Native Americans about the hurricane, so they stayed at home. Unfortunately, for them the hurricane was very bad and they had to leave their house. Hurston states, “Everybody was walking the fill. Hurrying, dragging falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly. Wind and the rain beating on old folks and on babies. Tea Cake stumbles once or twice in his weariness and Janie held him up” (155). This event was important because if Janie and Tea Cake went to the east and they were save from the hurricane then the ending would have been very different. During the hurricane, Janie fell in the water and this dog was trying to bite her but Tea Cakes defended her by killing the dog, but before he killed it the dog managed to bit him on his cheekbone. The bite of the cheekbone resulted in Tea Cake getting very sick because the dog had rabies. This one major event was a huge aspect of the ending of the