Their Eyes Were Watching God

Abstract

The paper describes about the most famous work of Zora Neale Hurston, writer Afro-American's Harlem Renaissance address the issues of negativity with Janie. The main character and narrator of the work is Janie Crawford, a woman of forty years, African American, which tells the story of his life and his travels through the hotel to a flashback. The stages of his life are taking as reference points separated the three marriages.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Introduction

Their Eyes Were Watching God, also known as With Eyes Were Watching God (Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937), is the most famous work of Zora Neale Hurston, writer Afro-American's Harlem Renaissance. It was written while the author was in Haiti to study anthropology. But the novel is set in Florida. This book has been written to address the issues of negativity with Janie (Zora, 2010).

Discussion

The main character and narrator of the work is Janie Crawford, a woman of forty years, African American, which tells the story of his life and his travels through the hotel to a flashback. The stages of his life are taking as reference points separated the three marriages. Janie's grandmother, Nanny, was a slave who became pregnant to a white man and gave birth to a baby girl. The latter was raped as a teenager and Janie was born there. Janie grew up with his grandmother the mother is never mentioned in the novel. Nanny wants to avoid the evil nephew spends his life along with any man, and then combines them with a factor of a marriage, a bride who seeks to advance both the home and farm. But marriage is falling apart, Janie does not like the man who married for convenience only and that the strikes and forces her to work on the farm. ...