Their Eyes Were Watching God
Goodbye Jane Eyre! I will miss you (though I probably won't miss her, not even a little)! We're moving on to a novel by Zora Neale Hurston titled, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The story is about a woman named Janie and takes place in Florida. I've read the book before, but that was years ago, so the details are a bit fuzzy.
Janie is the granddaughter of a slave; her mother is black but her father is white and the story details her struggle to fit into a social group and create an identity for herself. Janie is beautiful- she has dark skin and flowing hair, which may sound like she lucked out when the Creator was distributing looks, but her appearance causes problems for her. Women are jealous of her beauty, and make her the subject of gossip. Black people think she looks too white, white people think she looks to black, so to which group does Janie belong? Furthermore, in the antebellum South, neither blacks nor women have much power, so to be a member of both groups is a double whammy.
Don't you wish you could be in flordia right now??
ReplyDeleteWhen does this story take place? Like what time period?
This story takes place at the end of the 1800's into the beginning of the 1900's. No, I don't wish I was in Florida right now. It's hot, there are too many bugs, and there are too many people. Maybe if I was lounging on the beach under an umbrella on the beach of the Gulf, well, that might be okay.
ReplyDeleteIf you have read this book before what is inspirering you to read it again even throught the details are fuzzy do u remember what happened in the story? .... Was it that good the firt time that you wanna read the story again.
ReplyDeleteThis book reminds me of the book Cane River. They are half black and half white too.
ReplyDeleteI might read this. It has definitively caught my attention
What does she do with her life?
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ReplyDeleteWhat a difficult situation for this lovely girl! What happens to her?