Their Eyes Were Watching God

This paper will tell the reader about all aspects of the numerous problems that are presented in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. It will deal with all of the numerous problems that were experienced in the rough time that the book was written in. Also, it will deal with how these problems are still involved in today’s society. While many of the problems will never go away, some have already, and some will go away in hopefully the near future.

There were many problems and issues that Zora Neale Hurston brought up in this novel, and she did this mostly through the recollection of the main character, Janie Crawford. While this story deals mainly with Janie’s life from age sixteen to approximately the age of forty, the novel also deals with the problems that society faced even before Janie’s birth. The major problem issue that is involved before Janie’s birth is the fact that the town schoolteacher raped her mother, Leafy Crawford. When this novel was set, approximately twenty years after the Civil War, rape was still an important issue in their society. While rape was probably more common back in those days, less was done about it, and it was basically just “accepted.” (Baker 134) Thi

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In the present day, death is still part of life. Rape is becoming very popular as of late because of several new date rape drugs. This wasn’t so obvious in Janie’s family ways, and after reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, it is apparent that the times seemed to be getting a little better as the story progressed. Our society is getting to the point that we really don’t accept either anymore, and we are trying to stop both by outlawing them, and by having help lines for people who feel that they have been subjected to either of these. Blacks especially had to do whatever they could to survive. Religion is currently one of the most debated items, which still makes it a problem between Church and scientists. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God" (151).

The major problems faced it the story Their Eyes Were Watching God involve the problems that deal with love. Today and forever those problems will include many problems such as heartbreak, anxiety, depression, and many other associated problems. The Doctor’s Home Journal states that a problem is defined as a cul-de-sac situation with little hope for the future

Although the major problems that were associated into Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God still exist today, at least in part, if not in whole, many people feel that racism has been totally eliminated from modern society. People worked as migrant workers, very similar to those in Jon Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Spouse abuse was very common at the time this story was written.

Envy is another huge problem that still exists today. While many people feel envious of Janie’s money and power that she possessed through her marriage with Logan Killicks the potato farmer, and Joe Starks the Mayor of Eatonville, people seemed to be more envious than ever when she found what she was always looking for, in true love, though it was with the poorer migrant worker Tea Cake.

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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

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