Their Eyes Were Watching God analysis

Here her father severally served as the mayor. Later on she joined Morgan Academy where she graduated from high school and after three years, she was enrolled at Howard University where she picked up and certified her writing career. While at the university she got her first publications in the university’s magazine. Before publishing Their Eyes were Watching God, she had undergone through a lot which helped shape her ideas for the book. She studied anthropology, wrote publications, co-founded a journal among others. Janie during her growing years, experiences a rough life due to her race. Out in the fields through a sight of a bee pollinating a flower, Janie is obsessed with finding true love. The story graduates from to the emotional growth of Janie to her maturity through her experiences in three marriages.

The first marriage is organized by her grandmother, who through her experiences knows all too well what an African American woman would go through at the time and does not want Janie to face that life, therefore, she marries her off to Logan Kilicks, a man who is abusive to her and threatens to kill her, therefore forcing her to quit on the marriage. She meets and marries Joe Stark who takes her a Eatonville a city that was occupied by blacks. Parents and students have argued that this scene implies a language and content that is sexual. Therefore, they felt it inappropriate (Anderson, 2013 np). This book has been made controversial for what many critics call sexual explicit content. This attitude is derived from the books first chapter, where Janie gets a revelation through a bee pollinating a flower.

This revelation reels her towards finding love. The objections made about the book were made during its inception. Those in the objection of the book felt that Hurston was in a way mocking the African American’s way of speaking. They also felt that Hurston did not quite ensure the direct approach of the treatment that the blacks faced I the hands of the whites. During this period, the blacks led miserable lives that were controlled by the majority race; they were racially discriminated, abused, tortured and taken for granted. They were, according to the whites, slaves and had to do what was directed to. Out here she leads the life of a mayor’s wife. However, her husband, Joe, has negative views on the roles of women in the society.

He states that their opinions should not count. This changes Janie’s attitude to him. They begin having quarrels which go on for long. This time to a younger man, after their stay together, rises an impending disaster, a hurricane that would sweep everything on its path. Tea Cake for the love of money, does not want to run off and avoid the disaster. They stay. When the hurricane finally hits, there is trouble everywhere. Janie is almost bitten by a rabid dog, Tea Cakes saves her from the danger and gets bitten instead. He said that the book did not conform to any seriousness. According to his review, the book carried no message and was more about sexual explicitness. Wright said that Hurston did not have any Negro influence in it.