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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Their Eyes Were Watching God Critical Essay

In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were honoring God writes about an African American woman named Janie Crawford who is in calculate of her inner self. While maturing, she develops more versed desires which led to her three marriages. In The Kiss of Memory, Tracy L. Bealer talks about how love can be so many things and can be a struggle for Janie from her three very(prenominal) different marriages. Developing sexual desires do Nanny realize that a new life should be put ahead of Janie. Nanny and so forces Janie into her first marriage with a man named Logan Killicks. Nanny chooses Logan because she feels marriage to a rich man will shield Janie from both sexual accessibility and thankless labor. (Bealer) But Janie thinks different, while she is with Logan, she doesnt feel loved or comfortable with him. Always having the responsibility to farm and work, she just felt used. subsequently meeting Joe Starks one day, she finds herself thinking that he spoke for cha nge and find out (28). She thinks that being with Joe will get her out of her unhealthy marriage with Logan, and so she left.Having the mayor of Eatonville being her husband, she feels as if she is on top of the world. But alone that changes over time when he gets abusive verb eithery and physically which made her feel as if shes an object rather than a person. This all led to the end up of her second marriage. After her two marriages had failed, she met Tea coat who made her feel special and blissful again. Hes accessary and respectful of Janies beliefs unlike Killicks and Starks. Naw, it aint alright wid you. If it was you wouldnt be severalizein dat.Have de nerve tuh say whut you mean (104). He wants to show her how to speak her mind and be happy and not afraid to say what she wants to say. Although she has had some fights with Tea Cake, she finds someone whom she trusts and loves. In the end, Tea Cakes rabies-included madness and the fact that Janie shoots her husband in self-defense (Bealer) is the end of their relationship. With every action comes a consequence, in this case it was when Janie, when she started developing sexual desires.Because of her kiss with Johnny, she is forced to get married. With her first husband, she found her second, and with her second, she found her align love, Tea Cake. He loved and respected her like no separate and allowed her to speak her mind. Killicks and Starks were both too demanding which led to the fall of their marriage. These memories all came from a single kiss as a 15 year overage girl. She is taught to be strong throughout her whole life, but she never in truth found her true self, just a bunch of memories within her.

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