Thier Eyes Are Watching - 61506

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Their eyes were watching God nove res!onse

Their eyes were watching God boo" has a uni#ue structure because the story is tod in the

conte$t o% a %rame It starts and ends with two !eo!e' anie and heoby who were sitting on the

!orch at anie*s* house anie narrates the stories encosed within the nove to heoby during the

evening It begins with anie teing on what occurred in years since she e%t +atonvie and her

chidhood re%ections The story is not %irst !erson narrative thus ,urston ta"es over the narrative

and uses third !erson stand!oint ,owever- the story !roceeds chronicay The reader bum!s into

anie*s i%e e$!eriences- yet ,urston contros the story The nove has %our units %ramewor" The

%irst section e$ists with anie chidhood and adoescent years with her Nanny The second unit

comes with an interude with Nanny*s story and anie*s oss o% chidhood a%ter her marriage to

.ogan The third !art e$ists with anie years with ody /tar"s .ater in the section- anie

e$!eriences %reedom and inde!endence a%ter ody*s death The %ourth unit e$ists on anie

marriage to Tea Ca"e The !a!er discusses on anie reationshi! with men

It was interesting how anie consciousness began at the awareness o% the !hysica

mani%estation o% her se$uaity in regards to men anie !erceived ove as the way one natura

thing ma"es ove to another In cha!ter three Nanny /tates- 0eationshi! is a matter o%

!ragmatism2 There%ore- Nanny convinces anie that .ogan ma"es a good husband because he is

honest- weathy and hard wor"ing 3esides- it is aso interesting on how anie is oo"ing %or a

dee!er "ind o% %u%iment that is both !hysica and emotiona ,ence- she beieves that .ogan is


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not good oo"ing because she %ees no connection to him .ater- he meets ody whom she %ees

connected to thus eaves .ogan and marries ody 3oth anie and ody eave and go to 5orida in

a town "nown as +atonvie where ody estabishes a name and becomes the town mayor

Cha!ter %ive and si$ e$!ores anie and ody reationshi! The cha!ters e$amine the %irm sense

o% community in +atonvie %ocusing on the way anguage nurtures the community thus shows

that the im!ortance o% the society

Cha!ter seven o!ens with anie acce!tance to be ody save by obeying a that she is tod

to do anie acts as a symbo that !ortrays how women are de!rived and are beings with no

rights /he starts %eeing that her s!irit has detached %rom her body and her i%e ony rotates %rom

the store to the house 3esides- the cha!ter !ortrays that women shoud be bound to their

husbands thus do whatever they are obiged by their husbands Cha!ter eight reviews ody*s

des!eration ,e consuted #uac"s to !er%orm mirace cures %or his deteriorating heath 3esides-

ody avoids contact with anie and even sto!s eating her coo"ing ody never res!ected anie and

sees her as an ob6ect 5urther- the doctor determines that ody7s "idneys have sto!!ed wor"ing

thus' he wi soon die A%ter the doctor comments- anie !ities ody and wants to see him one ast

time- but ody re%uses +ven though ody never wanted to see anie she wanted to te him a the

bad things that he did thus she decided that she must enter the room

anie was not e$ceent with reationshi!s Cha!ter nine and ten mar"s the beginning o%

anie*s iberation /he earns to be aone- but then Tea Ca"e arriva brings her second stage o%

deveo!ment /he sees the "ind o% reationshi! she wants and how that reationshi! wi assist her

in attaining her dreams /he brims with inde!endence and strength where she is %u o%

conversation /he reai8ed that Nanny erce!tion to the word was wrong because Nanny was

not a viain In concusion- anie reationshi! to men was annoying- but the esson she earned


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and the strength she embodied through her inde!endence was commendabe In s!ite o%

everything that occurred and everyone*s res!onse to it- she stood %irm because it was her story'

she had to ive and was not ashamed or regretted any moment o% it

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