Their Eyes Were Watching God is a book about a woman who is trying to live her life as she pleases, but is stopped by people in er life being persuaded to life for someone else. She grew up believe that money, and a high status in life is the way to be happy. Janie soon finds out that that isn’t how life should be. She discovers that life is more valuable then expensive things, and a lot of money. She finally gets to a point where she can live her life for Janie, and no body else. That was very important to her because her whole life she has been degraded and controlled. From her grandmother telling her about money being the only important thing, to controlling men in her life. She always had something tying her down. But when she escaped being tied down, was when she was truly happy.
April 30, 2007 at 6:54 am
I did not read Their Eyes Were Watching God, but it was interesting to read your blog without any knowledge of the novel. It’s interesting that the main character really thought that all you needed in life to be happy was many and expensive things. Discovering that there is so much more to life than just expensive and valuable things is a really important thing to do, and I’m glad that this character was able to achieve this in the novel.