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Their Eyes Were Watching God Study Guide & Essays
Hurston wrote Their Eyes in 1937 in only seven weeks while doing anthropological research in Haiti. When Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God was first published in 1937, it did not receive the accolades and recognition that it receives today. White readers were much less critical of…
Their Eyes Were Watching God study guide contains a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
- Short Summary
- About Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Character List
- Glossary of Terms
- Major Themes
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-4
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 5-8
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 9-12
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How the story is told is more important than what is told. Discuss.
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1.Analyze Hurston's personification of Death and of Doubt. Why does she capitalize these two abstract concepts?2.Consider Janie's three husbands seperately. What distinguishes them from one another? What do characteristics do they share?
3.How does the mule's treatment in Eatonville reflect the condition of the black female? Does Joe's gesture of buying him have symbolic value?
4.How does the porch work as a personified symbol? Trace its use throughout the novel.
5.Does this novel have a moral? What attitudes does Hurston prescribe towards race? Money? Family?
6.Is Nanny a sympathetic character? Is Janie's abandonment of her justified?
7.At what point does the division between men's activities and women's activities break down? Which activities where formerly designated as male activities?
8.Why did Hurston include Mrs. Turner in the novel? Were Tea Cake and his friends' attack on her cafe justified?
9.Who does the pronoun in the title refer to? Janie and Tea Cake? African-Americans in general? Explain how the title relates to the content of the novel.
10.Is Hurston's vision of God religious or secular? Do her characters view him as merciful or vengeful?
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Characters' Pursuits of Dreams
I need to examine the pursuit of character's dreams in "Their Eyes Were Watching God". I also need some ideas for how those dreams contributed to the development of the characters through the story.Any help would be great!
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