Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
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In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston shows how
the lives of American women changed in the early 20th century. Zora Neale
Hurston creates a character in her own likeness in her masterpiece, Their Eyes
Were Watching God. By presenting Janie's search for identity, from her
c ....
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.... that although she is no
longer a slave, the slave consciousness has caused her to view even her
relationship with the deity about slave and master. This makes Janie the leader
of her family's search. However Nanny realized this, and when she saw that Janie
was old enough for love she had her married. This guaranteed that Janie would
not continue a loss of identity.
Even as a young girl, living in the materialistic world of her Nanny and
her first husband, Logan Killicks, Janie chooses to lis ....
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