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their eyes were watching god
Tyler Hanna
LAL: Ceplikas
05/13/03
Their Eyes Were Watching God First Draft
In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the reader meets a young African American woman who is finding herself as a woman and in the meantime is searching for a partner. The one image that jump starts her quest for womanhood and love is a pear tree . The pear tree is not only a representation of the curiosity that sets Janie on her quest for self-discovery but also Jane's life, blossoming, death, and rebirth. Janie is essentially "rootless" at the beginning of her life, never having known her mother or father and having been raised by her grandmother, Nanny. Nanny even says to Janie, "Us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways" (16). Thus, Under a pear tree in Nanny's backyard, Janie, as a sixteen-year-old girl, finds the possibilities of...
Tyler Hanna
LAL: Ceplikas
05/13/03
Their Eyes Were Watching God First Draft
In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the reader meets a young African American woman who is finding herself as a woman and in the meantime is searching for a partner. The one image that jump starts her quest for womanhood and love is a pear tree . The pear tree is not only a representation of the curiosity that sets Janie on her quest for self-discovery but also Jane's life, blossoming, death, and rebirth. Janie is essentially "rootless" at the beginning of her life, never having known her mother or father and having been raised by her grandmother, Nanny. Nanny even says to Janie, "Us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways" (16). Thus, Under a pear tree in Nanny's backyard, Janie, as a sixteen-year-old girl, finds the possibilities of...
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