‫إقليم كوردستان – العراق‬ ‫هەریمی کوردستانی عێڕاق‬

‫جامعة جيهان‬ ‫زانكۆى جيهان‬

‫كلية االداب والفنون‬ ‫كۆلێژى ئاداب و هونەر‬

‫قسم اللغة االنكليزیة‬ ‫بەشى ئينگليزى‬

Kurdistan Region- Iraq

Cihan University

College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

A Thematical Approach to
Zora Neale Hurston’s
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Graduation Project Submitted to

Department of English /College of Arts and Letters

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

For the Degree of

Bachelor of Arts

In

English Language and Literature

By

Shoxan Jaffar Hamid

Rayan Azad Taha

Helin Burhan Rahman

Supervised by

Assist. Lect. Amna Adnan Othman

2022

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 Certification

We certify that this project was prepared under our

Supervision at the Department of English, College of Arts and

Letters, Cihan University in partial requirements for the degree of:

Bachelor of Arts
In
English Language and Literature

In view of the available recommendations, I forward this

Project for debate by the examining committee.

Assist. Lect. Pola Tahseen Mohammed

Head of Department of English
College of Arts and Letters
Cihan University
Date: / /2022

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We, the examining committee, certify that we have read this project and have
examined the students in its contents and that in our opinion it is adequate in partial
requirement for the degree of:

Bachelor of Arts
In
English Language and Literature

Assistant Lecturer Assistant Lecturer

College of Arts and Letters College of Arts and Letters
Member Chairman

A.L. Amna Adnan Othman

College of Arts and Letters
Cihan University-Erbil
Supervisor

Approved for the department committee of undergraduate studies.

Assist. Lect. Pola Tahseen

Mohammed

Head of Department of English

College of Arts and Letters Cihan
University
Date: / /20212

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 Dedication

To our beloved families, with gratitude.

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Acknowledgment

Primarily I would thank God for being able to complete this research
with success. This research was supported by Cihan University, Department of
English. We would like to thank all our friends who helped us with their
experience and their information to us during our research.

We thank Ms. Amna Adnan for helping us a lot by guiding us step by step and by
giving us her good information. We would also like to extend our gratitude to our Head
of Department, Mr. Pola Tahseen, We would also like to thank all English department
teaching staff: A.L. Akram Danial, Mr. Adyar Saadi, Mr. Ahmed Jasim, Mr. Muayed
Abbas, Mrs. Israa Bahram, Mrs. Huda Yaseen and Miss Nura. For their encouragement
through their encouraging comments through this research

It will take a creative effort to express our gratitude to our family members for their
patience, endurance, and encouragement during our four years of study, despite the
difficulties they have faced.

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 Table of Contents
Certification……………………………………………………………………………….ⅱ

Dedication………………………………………………………………………………...ⅳ

Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………………ⅴ

Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………1

Keyword: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Themes, Marriage, Janie Crawford…………1

Chapter One: Introduction………………………………………………………………...2

Chapter Two: Literature review…………………………………………………………...3

2.2Themes………………………………………………………………………………....5

2.2.1 Gender Role………………………………………………………………………...6

2.2.2 Voice ………………………………………………………………….……............7

2.2.3 Love & Independence………………………………………………………............8

2.2.4 Race & Racism……………………………………………………………………10

2.2.5 Feminism………………………………………………………………………….11

Chapter Three…………………………………………………………………………....12

3.1 Discussion…………………………………………………………………………...12

3.2 Hurston’s use of dialect……………………………………………………………..12

Chapter Four……………………………………………………………………………..14

4.1Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………14

Reference………………………………………………………………………………...15

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show the themes that portrayed in Their Eyes Were
Watching God. The study is based on the content of the novel; it presents the
protagonist Janie Crawford, and the novel has four periods; each one reflects a
stage in Janie’s life. First one her life with Nanny, who raise her up. Second one
her life with Logan Kellicks, her first husband. While the third is about Janie life
with Joy Starks, her second husband. And last one is with Tea Cake, her third
husband, which shows love story of her.

Many important topics rises, which it become common in that century, also
how black American women represent that time.

This research provides the understanding of women and their struggle, suffer,
men dominant over them, and their voice for independence and love.

Keyword: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Themes, Marriage, Janie Crowford.

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 Chapter One

1.1 Introduction

The thematical approach can be understood as a path to the deeper meaning

of a text, finding it richer and more meaningful than it could otherwise be read.
Also to reveal which subject is important to the author and their opinions on
these subjects.

In reviewing the strategy, it is possible to distinguish skills from one topic to

another, specifies the relationship between concepts. Moreover, it reveals
multiple norms and topics which are put together.

It also sets out the issues that represent this period and the way society perceives
it. Furthermore, it reveals numerous important principles that provide the main
understanding of the novel. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston uses the
problems and the way the effect people back then. And their actions to show the
concept of content, as well as to involve the importance of women.

The novel is a story of Janie’s growth, which attempts to find love and
independence, directly through a series of relationships. The protagonist of the
story, Janie Crawford is a pure and idealist girl who believes in marriage
through love. However, as the narrative develops, and she becomes older,
readers can notice the transformation in her personality. Being married three
times. At first, being married against her will with an older farm man that forces
her to work hard, her second husband just treat her like a possession rather than
a human being. It is only in her third marriage that she obtains what she is
looking for as equal treatment and love. Each marriage goes through various
struggles, which she confronts. She fights for herself against them because she is
always under pressure gender differences and physical violence. She struggles to
find a man or someone that treats her fairly and loves her.

The most common topics in Their Eyes Were Watching God involve Janie’s
search for unconditional, true, and fulfilling love. She suffers from different
types of love over her entire life. Following her trip for this love, Janie gained
her independence and personal freedom, making her a real heroine in the novel.
Because Janie strives for her independence, others mange to judge her simply
because she is daring enough to achieve her freedom.

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 Chapter Two
2.1 Literature Review

“Whether or not there was ever a town in Florida inhabited and governed
entirely by Negroes, you will have no difficulty believing in the Negro
community which Zora Neale Hurston has either reconstructed or imagined in
this novel. The town of Eatonville is as real in these pages as Jacksonville is in
the pages of Rand McNally; and the lives of its people are rich, racy, and
authentic. The few white characters in the book appear momentarily and
incidentally. The title carries a suggestion of The Green Pastures, but it is to this
extent misleading; no religious element dominates this story of human
relationships … The only weak spots in the novel are technical; it begins
awkwardly with a confusing and unnecessary preview of the end; and the
dramatic action, as in the story of the hurricane, is sometimes hurriedly and
clumsily handled. Otherwise the narration is exactly right, because most of it is
in dialogue, and the dialogue gives us a constant sense of character in action. No
one has ever reported the speech of Negroes with a more accurate ear for its
raciness, its rich invention, and its music.” (George Stevens, The Saturday
Review of Literature, 1937).

“This is Zora Hurston’s third novel, again about her own people–and it is
beautiful. It is about Negroes, and a good deal of it is written in dialect, but
really it is about everyone, or least everyone who isn’t so civilized that he has
lost the capacity for glory … The story of Janie’s life down on the muck of
Florida Glades, bean picking, hunting and the men shooting dice in the evening
and how the hurricane came up and drove the animals and the Indians and
finally the black people and the white people before it, and how Tea Cake, in
Janie’s eyes the ‘son of Evening Son,’ and incidentally the best crap shooter in
the place, made Janie sing and glitter all over at last, is a little epic all by itself.
Indeed, from first to last this is a well-nigh perfect story–a little sententious at
the start, but the rest is simple and beautiful and shining with humor. In case
there are readers who have a chronic laziness about dialect, it should be added

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that the dialect here is very easy to follow, and the images it carries are
irresistible.”(Lucille Tompkins, New York Times Book Review, 1937).

“And now, Zora Neale Hurston and her magical title: Their Eyes Were Watching
God. Janie’s story should not be re-told; it must be read. But as always thus far
with this talented writer, setting and surprising flashes of contemporary folk lore
are the main points. Her gift for poetic phrase, for rare dialect, and folk humor
keep her flashing on the surface of her community and her characters and from
diving down deep either to the inner psychology of characterization or to sharp
analysis of the social background. It is folklore fiction at its best, which we
gratefully accept as an overdue replacement for so much faulty local color
fiction about Negroes. But when will the Negro novelist of maturity, who knows
how to tell a story convincingly — which is Miss Hurston’s cradle gift, come to
grips with motive fiction and social document fiction? Progressive southern
fiction has already banished the legend of these entertaining pseudo-primitives
whom the reading public still loves to laugh with, weep over and envy. Having
gotten rid of condescension, let us now get over overs implication!”(Alain
Locke, Opportunity, June 1, 1938).

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2.2 Themes
The novel provides various means for readers with different themes. Each
theme carries a strong message, which shows that society in several aspects
towards the African-American people, particularly women in Florida in the early
20th century. Also these days the novel is well received and has been called “a
classic of black literature, one of the best novels of the period” (Haward, p: 7).
Moreover, the life of the author played an important role in the writing of this
novel. What she did not express publicly because of number of obstacles she put
in the novel.

“The very beginning of the novel is like a journey of a woman” (Genevieve,

2005). Its Janie’s journey when she comes back to her house in Eatonville, and
telling her story to her best friend Pheoby.

The main character Janie Crawford has to begin with a saying about the life of
men, who subjected women. This shows multiple difficulties. And this path
gives rise to many principles for readers, which shows the author’s greatness. “
Zora’s great gift; her skill to portray a complete world with its enigmas and
restrains within several sentences”. (Rajlksmi, 2017). The appearance of the
themes that are found in the work, the novel not only depicts the problem of
racism, but also explores issues of gender, love and independence, and
feminism.

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2.2.1 Gender Role

The very first theme of Hurston’s novel that is understandable is gender roles
or genders differentiate, and the author mostly focuses on the theme of role and
value of gender in society. The theme is outstanding and it’s so obvious in many
sides.

The author gives greater importance to the role and value of women and the way
society sustains them or does what they want. Janie must live by men in her life
and society not what she wants. In the book, the author explores the relationship
between men and women, what kind of relationships was meant to work.

Nanny’s believes that Janie should be married not for love, desire, or
independence but only for protection. This belief shows that women are weak.
The author uses the rest of the novel portray that African-American women are
not valued or respected as they deserve in their relationships. That all achieve by
revealing Janie’s life and marriages to the readers. The men continuously silence
women’s voice, restrict their actions with their demands and abuse women’s
appearance and sexuality.

In her three marriages she faces different behavior towards, two of her
husband’s Logan Killicks and Joe Starks manipulate her to be voiceless and
domesticated as this how a wife should behave.

Logan tells her place is home in kitchen, and should not fool around also not to
go out all she has to do work at kitchen and he tells her that her place is
wherever he needs her. So, all he wants to cut her freedom and her selfhood as a
woman. “You ain’t got no particular place. It’s wherever Ah need yuh. Git uh
move on yuh, and dat quick” (Hurston, 1937, p.52-54).

Joe treats Janie well in some certain way; he builds a house for her and gives her
nice clothes, but after a while he treat her badly control her freedom and make
her dress as he demand even her hair is not allowed to be shown, and telling her
not to speak even criticize her publicly. “Mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no
speech-makin’, she’s uh woman and her place is in da home.”(Hurston, 1937,
p.107-109).

For Tea Cake he treat her equal to his and make her to be free and do as she
wishes, also he prove his loyalty to her and done love her. He teaches her many
things, “Janie can break gender division by playing checkers or learning how to

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shot a gun”. (Hozhabrossadat, p.125). She gets equal treatment without
considering gender with her third husband Tea Cake.

It’s their harsh treatment changes Janie into a strong. And declare that women
and men have different spots. Janie’s belief and daring against men and society
make her to refuse to accept gender roles throughout the novel.

2.2.2 Voice
Theme of voice uses and shown in the Hurston’s novel, it shows through the
characters and relationships. The main character Janie who is a one with no
voices no choice in her most early life.

To beginning with her grandmother Nanny who controls her, then her two
marriages, both Logan and Joe treat her as a possession or animal rather than
human or woman being.

So that Janie doesn’t face Nanny and her mother’s fate, she marries her despite
she doesn’t approve, and then she obeys her grandmother’s order. Thou she
doesn’t love him. And Logan treats her as a something that he owns as his mule,
and whenever Janie tries to talk he silence her and make her not to talk, yell, and
abuse her. “Ah’ll take Holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh”. (Hurston,
1937, p. 31-32).

As time goes Logan doesn’t make Janie fell love and doesn’t flatter her, his
voice become powerless over her voice. “Ah’m gettin sleepy, Janie. Let’s don’t
talk any mo” (Hurston, 1937, p. 41).

She pays no attention to her inner voice and become silence only to please her
grandmother, after Nanny’s death she leaves Logan and elopes with Joe. With
Joe she becomes more silence when he treats her as a possession. Even his
power makes Janie fell more powerless, “Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice”
(Hurston, 1937, p.58). He becomes big voice for Janie and people in Eatonville.

This weaken Janie’s voice more and she be controls in everything, until Joe
become ill, in his death bed Janie try to speak for herself and complain until he
dies “ Naw you goin tuh listen tuh me one time bef’ you die”(Hurston, 1937,
p.82) , this shows Janie finally talks for herself and rises her voice aloud.

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She becomes free and independence after Joe’s death, even continuous her
husband’s work at store. Until one day she meets Tea Cake which he plays an
important role for her to talk and gain her independence. He helps her to find her
true self and be able to talk and make her to have an existence. And teaches her
maiden language so she is able to open her heart and talks about her ideas in
public freely. With Tea Cake it’s a new beginning to her desire and to what she
wants. “… So her soul crawled out from its hiding place”. (Hurston, 1937,
p.128). She has an equal relationship with Tea Cake both in treatment and love.

Janie treats as a voiceless woman in both her marriages and with Tea Cake a
one with voice and freedom. Those experiences make her to learn a lesson, and
become stronger. And relies that equality is a key to strong relationship.

2.2.3 Love and Independence

In the novel Janie always looks for the love she wants, this kind of love as a
bee and flower on the pear tree in the nanny’s backyard. Whenever she sees a
bee she realizes her dream for love and happiness will not be complete without a
man.

She receives different kind of love, at first the love she get love of her
grandmother, love of protection. A love that goes to any length to ensure Janie’s
safety. When Janie kissed by a boy, Nanny marries her for her safety despite her
will. Nanny says “…Yo’ Nanny wouldn’t harm a hair uh yo’ head, she don’t
want nobody else to do it neither if she kin help it” (Hurston, 1937, p. 14).
Nanny’s love based on responsibility and duty and wants best for her Janie. Also
tells to Janie that love and romance comes after marriage it’s her beliefs. “She
would love Logan after they were married” (Hurston, 1937, p. 21).

Her misery begins when she find that Logan’s house a lonely and without taste
place. “A lonesome place like a stump in middle of the woods where nobody
had ever been. The house was absent of flavor, too” (Hurston, 1937, p. 39). It
shows that his house was out of people’s eyes, only what she sees woods and
animals.

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Also her dream about love and happiness and her desire all lost with Logan.
“She knew now that marriage did not make love, Janie’s first dream dead, so she
become a woman” (Hurston, 1937, p.25).

At same time, Logan placed restrictions on her freedom; make her work in
kitchen, working in farm, with animals. And alienate her from people. Until one
day Jamie meets a handsome man named Joe Starks, and she falls for his
appearance and his well-dressed although he is old. “He was citified, stylish
dressed man with hat set at an angle that didn’t belong in these parts” (Hurston,
1937, p. 27).

She elopes with him for finding love and fulfills her dream. Joe promises her to
make her happy and make her a lady. As days goes he become powerful and
make his promise for her. But he doesn’t give love as he talked about that he
controls her and silence her he even harm her. “… Slapped Janie until she had a
ringing sound in her ears” (Hurston, 1937, p. 67).

Her dreams again fade away with Joe, as time goes Joe insult her and abuse her
publicly till the day he become ill. Her 20 years of struggle and suffer with Joe
ends with Joe’s death. Now she is a free woman with two marriage experience.
That she thinks about her freedom and independence rather than marriage and
love.

Until one day a young, tall, physically handsome man appears. Vergible Woods
“Tea Cake” who draws her attention and feels ease with him and make fun of
his name. “Tea Cake! So you sweet as all dat” (Hurston, 1937, p. 97).

She builds a relationship with him carefully because of her two past
relationships. Tea Cake is end of Janie’s boredom and lonely life. He is different
from Logan and Joe, she thinks differently about him even says “he could be a
bee to a blossom-a pear tree” (Hurston, 1937, p. 106). She calls him this as her
bee to her flower found, which she dreams about love is him.

She marries him for the love he gives her, despite what others says to her. She
lives with him a very great relationship full of love and equality. As her dream,
he gives her freedom, independence, love. He teaches her so many things so she
can express herself freely and talk.

One day a hurricane hits the town and destroys everything, a rabid dog bites Tea
Cake when he tries to save Janie. His health falls, when he attacks Janie she
shoots him for save herself, and he dies. She feels so sad that he is gone and runs
a funeral for him. “.. She thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for
loving” (Hurston, 1937, p.184).

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Because with Tea Cake she gain everything she desires, her freedom,
independence, love, self-awareness, and build a courage so she can depend on
herself even when he is gone.

2.2.4 Race and Racism

Another theme that shown in some sides of the novel is racism, mostly we can
see the theme in Nanny’s tongue, because she was dealing with slavery, racism.
In the very beginning Nanny clears to Janie that white Americans are the top of
the society, “ Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as ah been
able tuh find out”(Hurston, 1937, p.19). Nanny was born in slavery and she
suffers from the abuse and insult that they do towards women slaves. Not only
this, she was raped by her white master, who is responsible for her pregnancy
with Leafy. That slavery is abolished Nanny prays that her daughter would have
a brighter future but her dream vanished when her daughter is raped by her
schoolteacher. That Leafy’s daughter Janie was not born in slavery, yet she is a
victim of racism. As Janie get her first kiss by Johnny Taylor, Nanny thinks for
her own sake and safety she should marry Logan Killicks who owns a lot of land
and a mule. As it’s clear that Nanny and Janie both are victim of racism. Also
when Janie was a little girl everyone called her “Alphabet”. “So many people
had done named me different named” (Hurston, 1937, p.9).

Furthermore, the theme of racism is shown in the Janie’s murder trial, the white
men are the ones who judge her innocence, the judge the twelve men of jury are
white, the white Americans seated in the front and the blacks stand in the back.
Blacks has no right to speak or get chance to testify against her. They say if the
one who is dead was white she would have been guilty, “she didn’t kiss no white
man, did she? Well, long as she don’t shoot no white man se kin kill jus' as
many niggers as she pleases” (Hurston, 1937, p. 253).

Another side of racism is with Mrs. Tuner, she is black but she is racist as any
white American. And she tries to convince Janie to marry her brother because
Janie has a light skin. And she advise blacks to marry lighter skinned people in
order to “lighten up de race” (Hurston, 1937, p.188).

However Nanny and Janie are victims of the racial pressures in the American
society.

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2.2.5 Feminism
The novel caries clear feminist aspects, which motivate women to be free from
racism, under control. Neglecting the social circumstances that women live in
the 20th century.

Through Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston shows in her novel a woman
which searches for her identity as a free woman that achieves her desires. Also
she called women to find their true selves for a way to independence. Also raise
women’s hope to enjoy their femininity without fear and without men
controlling them.

As for the story Nanny symbolizes one of the themes of feminism, as she suffers
and struggle in the traditional society and struggle against gender roles. So her
granddaughter Janie raised carefully by her. She advice Janie a lot and retell her
and her mother’s old stories, and make sure she is aware of her black woman
identity. But she marries her despite her will this is far from feminism. And her
three marriage experiences show how her husband’s treat her differently.

Logan symbolizes men’s narrow view of women, which he prevent her to

enjoying their sexuality and femininity.

Joe’s thirsty for political control, and position. Janie encourages and help him to
gain power and position, as he become more power full and his dreams come
true. His interest toward Janie fades away. And start to treat her as a property
and a puppet that must obey his rules.

As for Logan and Joe Janie show some react for them as she left Logan for
another man to find her happiness and love, there we can see she is a feminist
character. With Joy it’s clear she didn’t show him so much for herself, but in
some places she hurt him in front people, she hurt hi emotionally also when he is
in death bed she criticize him in everything.

With Tea Cake she loves him and full her emotional emptiness. Even he hits her
she remain silent. In this situation shows that Janie’s character is not a powerful
feministic.

Another important feminist feature in the novel when Janie returns to Eatonville
alone and without any man. A woman with voice and power to tell all her story
to her friend.

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3.1 Discussion
Their Eyes Were Watching God a novel is ahead of its time. And shows the
displeasing reality about black women. The ugliness of that time and the suffer
and struggle of black woman all portrayed through the novel.

The story of Janie, a beautiful and passionate fair-skinned black woman living in
the American south. Her experience with marriage drives the themes in the
novel. And shows her desires for love, freedom, and independence mostly is a
voice for herself to be able to speak. Hurston shows the joy and suffering of life
in the early twentieth century as a black woman in the Everglades. After her
three exhausted marriages and going through all this an old man force her to
work and be harsh to her at a very young age.

Then a powerful man that has a political place in society makes her not speak
not to dress like a beautiful woman even her hair should be in his words, and
insult her and lower her female side. And finally a man with love and
understanding towards her and make her freer and spend good time. In another
hand, he prevents her and controls her choices.

After he gets bit by a dog and becomes ill, Janie for her life kills him, even she
loves him and he was the most precious one to her. After her third husband's
death when she comes back to her town she realizes, that each experience taught
her.

She finds voice and independence. With her marriage to Logan, she learns she
could love someone with Jody, she realizes marriage equality is important. And
with Tea Cake, she learns that true love cannot be found. All this makes her
become a strong, independent, empowered woman

3.2 Hurston’s Use of Dialect

Their Eyes Were Watching God is noted for its usage of a southern African
American vernacular from the early 1900s. The speech in the story can be

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difficult to understand at first due to the heavy dialect. Here's a conversation
between Janie, the main character, and her husband:

“Ah wish mah people would git mo’ business in ‘em and not spend so much
time on foolishness” [said Jody].

“Everybody can’t be lak you, Jody. Somebody is bound to want tuh laugh and
play” [said Janie].

“Who don’t love tuh laugh and play?”

“You make out like you don’t anyhow.”

“I god, Ah don’t make out no such uh lie!” (Hurston, 1937, p.62-63).

Their Eyes Were Watching God has a lot of dialect, which is the spoken form of
a language. The dialect is regional, with different vocabulary, grammatical, and
phonetic features. Readers who are unfamiliar with such words may see
Hurston's language as a strange dialect that prevents them from fully
appreciating the book. The writing becomes comfortable and easy to read as
readers learn the dialect and its common features.

Hurston achieves a thick vernacular written phonetically in this part as well as in

the book. And more than the novel’s plot it's about Janie's character, and about
what to be an African-American woman in the south in the 1900s, And their
language. Folky speech was one of her hobbies, and she used her creative and
academic writings to try to preserve these pigeon-like dialects. She puts the
characters' conversation as close to actual speech as possible in Their Eyes Were
Watching God, both to keep true to the characters and her language aim.

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4.1 Conclusion
Hurston wrote this novel to be a voice for woman. This novel is all about Janie
finding her identity. She experiences obstacles and trials along the way and
never fully understands her belonging to life until she realizes she needs to do
things for herself and not for other people. Her Nanny’s influences on her as
well as Phoebe only frustrate her from becoming her true self.

In the ending of the novel she finally takes a stand almost like she found her
identity and did this through pride of being a woman. She wasn’t going to take
people talking down to her or men using her for an answer. She stuck up for
herself, women, and blacks during this period.

Finally, Janie grows up to an independent woman who bursts her voices in the
world. After undergoing the repeated failures in her marriages, Janie eventually
has the feminist awareness and becomes independent as a woman.

Moreover, Hurston’s novel does not only examine racism from a certain
perspective as being between blacks and whites, but she also broadens the
concept of racism.

While Hurston not only discusses the racial issues but goes further to discuss
gender, as Sawsan Qashgari states that this novel “celebrates the complexity of
African American society and their language, portrays the dark side of racism
and follows a black female’s search for identity and freedom. It represents one
woman’s courage to go beyond the luxurious life and to explore the real beauty
of life and love. It is a story that never ends because ‘there is no end to reach’.”
(Qashgari, 2017: p. 39).

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