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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