Their Eyes Were Watching God Character Analysis

This essay discusses two young women coming of age Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie struggles to grow up in three different marriages. On the other hand, Jane from Jane Eyre does a lot of developing and personal growth through her relationship with the one family. The focus will be on how these girls are similar and different. The reader will see how coming of age is different for every person. When Janie was a young girl she had romance on the brain. She had her first kiss underneath a blossoming pear tree. Her Nanny does not want to her be kissing any boys until she is married (Hurston 18-19). She does not want her grand daughter to be an easy girl.

(Meaning she wants to make sweet passionate love). This helps Janie’s character to show imagery with plants and flowers. This helps Janie be looked at as a natural beauty that has a gentle nature and has a readiness attitude for romance. Janie’s belief that loves comes after marriage is a false belief that she learns pretty quickly in her first marriage to Logan Killicks. The reader doesn’t know too much about Logan except that he seems to be a one-dimensional character. What the reader does know is that Logan is portrayed as old and ugly, which is completely opposite of his beautiful and young wife, Janie. She seems him as a violation of her dream of true love. When the reader first meets Logan he speaks in the sweetest way to Janie, which gives Janie hope that this marriage is a good one and she is marrying a great man. Shortly after they are married realizes that Logan is somewhat of a liar because now he only speaks to her in anger and commands her to do things. Logan gets very

John, a missionary, for the first time she is the little girl lost in the woods. St. John is very passionate about his work as a missionary in India, which is what he is home prepping for. Once the reader gets to know St. John he is a hard and cold man, who focuses on one thing and that is marrying a beautiful woman and taking her with him to be his missionary wife. This makes the reader and Jane ignore the fact that he is handsome, blonde, and blue-eyed. Now to focus on that Jane came into St. John’s life poor, starving and alone. St. John gets to know her fairly quickly and realizes that she is amazing and beautiful woman. This is why he gets her the job as the governess for Mr. Rochester’s adopted daughter Adele. Jane teaches Adele how to speak English, while at the same time falls madly in love with her father. Who at first glance is not an attractive man by any means. This is a big way that Jane proves herself as a strong and beautiful woman because she never judges a book by its cover. She falls in love with the man that she gets to know on the inside, not by what is on the outside. She falls in love with the man who speaks French to her and tries to spoil her any chance that he gets. Rochester said to Jane “My bride is here," he said, again drawing me to him, "because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?” (Bronte, 87). This is one of the sweetest ways for a man to ask a woman, in my