Their Eyes Were Watching God
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there are many lessons on a person's search for identity. Janie's search for identity throughout this book is very visible. It has to do with her search for a name, and freedom for herself. As she goes through life her search takes many turns for the worse and a few for the better, but in the end she finds her true identity. Through her marriages with Logan, Joe, then Tea Cake she figures out what is for her and how she wants to live. So in the end, she is where she wants to be. In Janie's early life she lived with her grandmother, Nanny. Nanny and Janie were pretty well off and had the privilege to live in the yard of white folks. While Janie was growing up she played with the white children. While she was in this stage, she was faced with much criticism and was called many names, so many that everyone started calling her alphabet, "'cause so many people had done named me different names." Soon she started piecing together what she knew of her odd identity. Then one day she saw herself in a photograph and noticed that she looked different, that she had dark skin, and she said, "before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest." From this point, Ja
When Joe was nominated to be mayor, and the people wanted to hear from Mrs. By the end of the marriage, she did not have her kitchen and house work that she loved to do, and she had lost her name. They should become equals of men in work, because they are not the stupid weaklings that should be forced to fill a roll of subservience to men. She did not feel any obligation to work with Tea Cake, she just wanted to. Not long into this marriage, Janie has had enough, and when the chance to go away with a smooth, romantic man, she takes the chance. He was an unpretentious man without the status of high class, unlike Logan and Joe. In this novel, Zora Neale Hurston shows many points on her view of a woman's place in America in the twentieth century. If women are dissatisfied in a marriage they need to move on toward the things that do satisfy them. Mayor Starks, Joe said, "mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout speech-makin'. So when she returned to Eatonville in her overalls, she had inside of her, true inner happiness and knowledge of her identity. In her marriage to Tea Cake, Janie finally had peace and love. Janie had a hard time finding her identity.
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