Essay Comparing Their Eyes Were Watching God And The Great Gatsby

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Regardless of age, gender, and race, everyone encounters different problems in his or her daily life. Whether the problems are as simple as getting up in the morning or untangling the headphones, people need to find a solution to solve them. The only thing that matters is what solutions they will seek. In David Foster Wallace’s “Good People,” he narrates a story about two college students, Lane Dean, Jr. and Sheri Fisher, who face a dilemma of choosing between either abortion or keeping their baby. They are torn between these choices because they come from a religious family, in which abortion is illegal and they will become immoral if they decide to have an abortion.

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston explains the journey of Janie, the main character,who struggles to find her independence and a place where she feels comfortable. She undertakes a bold journey to find her own self. She goes through several relationships, thinking they would somehow fulfill her life, but all fail because Janie does not feel content or the relationship leads to the death of a spouse. In the end, Janie uses her desire for power and independence for freedom to reveal that she does not need an unpleasant relationship to fulfill and appreciate her search for her true self. First, Janie struggles with her relationship with her first husband, Logan.

These two sisters have grown together all through their life’s, creating a strong bound, and the fact that her family and a “old guy” is taking away her sister is something she can’t stand. In the end Nea believes that she is saving Sourdi from Mr.Chhay and her mother. However what Nea does not understand in all her youth and idealism , is that sourdi does not want to be saved: She willfully accepts her fate and her marriage to Mr.Chhay because she finds financial stability and a secure future.

She is only exposed to the one culture and community which is East Village. Nomi is limited in how she may see others but more importantly how she views herself. She struggles a lot to stay with her religion and community.

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the author, Zora Neale Hurston, utilizes the motifs of the horizon and the road to symbolize the theme that a big part of achieving your dreams is the journey you choose to take to get there. Hurston uses these motifs to try and convey her message that without traveling on the right road you will never reach your horizon. If you do not focus on the journey you may never reach your dreams. Early in the novel Hurston uses the horizon motif to show that men have more unrealistic dreams and horizons, thus never reaching them because they never focus on the journey they take to get there.

The Knight is the first of all the pilgrims to share his unique tale. In his story, inmates Palamon and Arcite love Emily, but they hate each other. Dramatic irony occurs after Arcite’s prison release, when he works in disguise for Emily's family. Palamon escapes the jail and finds Arcite on Emily's property. The two men pray to Greek gods for Emily's love and hand in marriage, but Emily secretly prays to stay single until she finds true love.

To him that goal of not reaching is like dying because he won 't stop he believe he has no purpose without her and the light i believe if she doesn 't stay with him it will disappear but as long as it 's there he will continue to be loving because he can 't imagine is life without her and all the money he has and opportunities he has don 't matter to him because daisy is all he wants the light is what he loves the most and he will continue to look at that light as a source to tell him to keep going. The green light is probably the most important image in the book and movies because it summarizes the whole thing and what gatsby is after too is daisy the green light symbolizes the will to go for daisy and the future he is dreaming for with her in it and without her that future and light will not existe. The green light is a symbol of love is what keeps going like that light and there is nothing that can take that light out especially hate to gatsby the only way that light is going to be gone is the rejection and reality of daisy not living with him in

In the book, Fitzgerald mentions that there is a green light that appears to be at the end of a dock. This green light is supposed to symbolize hope for the future and the dock is Daisy. The green light is supposed to be Gatsby’s motivation for earning money and achieving the American Dream, yet he never truly experienced the American Dream because he is not happy regardless of how much money that he has. Gatsby realizes that money cannot buy him happiness and the only reason he wanted to live the American Dream is not to have more money than he did before he met Daisy, but to win Daisy 's heart like it is a prize. Society imagines that they are happy when they think of themselves living the American Dream.

She simultaneously loves and resents her children because, while she is their mother, she feels that they have taken away her freedom and self-purpose. As Edna journeys in her awakening, she strives to find meaning for herself as Edna, not her children's mother. To prove she is more than just a mother, she distances herself from normal motherly responsibilities. “He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it?”(Chopin, 15) Edna's neglect of her children stems from others expectations for her to submit to and look after her

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s happiness and self-fulfillment greatly depended on the man whom she was in a relationship with. From, the beginning of the novel, Janie never followed the path that had the utmost value to herself; She always settled for what other people thought was best for her. This made Janie never quite content with her situation and caused her happiness and self-fulfillment to be hindered by her circumstances. The horizon, a motif representing dreams, wishes, the possibility of change, and improvement of ones’ self, is the point in which Janie’s journey of self-discovery is illustrated by.

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston expresses Janie 's hunger to find true love which aided Janie 's quest to have satisfaction within herself. A quest is a long or arduous search for something that is trying to be embraced. In Janie 's three marriages she gained strength, courage and wisdom in hope to find her truest self. Janie 's first marriage with Logan Killicks was arranged, and forced upon by Nanny.

Langston Hughes Use of Extended Metaphor and Imagery Not all of us choose to keep climbing through life’s obstacles. Yet some choose to go through life’s discomforts; like the diligent mother in Langston Hughes poem, “Mother to Son.” She addresses the son in a colloquial monologue about her life’s hurdles and hardships by never giving up; “For I’se still goin’, honey,” (18). The mother also persuades her son to not give up; “So boy, don’t you turn back.” (14) “Mother to Son” uses extended metaphor and imagery to reveal the mother’s persistency and determination to her son, explaining all of her life’s anguished situations.

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a main character whose outward existence conforms, and her inward life questions. This tension helps to evolve the author’s theme of the importance of individuality and how individuality creates happiness. Janie experiences most of her life in trying to conform, and grows to despise it. Once free, she becomes herself and becomes happy. Early in the novel, Janie marries Logan Killicks.

In each of her relationships, Janie was being controlled or had power and control in some way. In her three relationships, there was some sort of power and contol theme that showed up at various times. In the beginning of her very first relationship with Logan Killicks, Janie did not love Logan, but she thought once they were married she would learn to love him. Janie mostly stayed inside their home while Logan did most of the chores and outside work.