Their Eyes Were Watching God Symbolism

It appears that Johnson is psychologically disturbed as she tries to escape from her lost past of heritage and identity. At this point Lebert Joseph becomesa fundamental part of Avey’s historical struggle to survive. Avey was raised by her great aunt Cuney, who would always tell her stories about their family heritage and ancestry. Aunt Cuney wants Avey to pass her cultural heritage to next generation and tells her the stories of Ibo slaves’ hardships traveling on ship. However, Avey's attention shifts as she forgets the identity and the struggles of African Americans.

In the play Abby tries to do witchcraft to kill John Proctor's wife Elizabeth. She almost gets caught doing it so she accuses many people of bewitching her and got many people hanged. She accuses Elizabeth of bewitching her to kill her. The court will not kill her because she is pregnant but John Procter ends up being hanged because he was accused.

The "need for ritual is a way to identify that a serial killer is at work; it sets him from other murderers"(Dolan 51). Serial Killers and their actions of killing others may easily become an “addiction” and “way of life” (Dolan 1). Serial Killers have rituals that are put into seven phases: The Aura Phase, The Trolling Phase, Wooing Phase, Capture, Murder, Totem Phase and Depression Phase. In the story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, the lady goes through these phases to kill her next victim Billy Weaver. As already known the landlady is a serial killer since she underwent the phases Trolling and Totem.

Throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie exists as both the protagonist and narrator of her story, portraying the various life experiences she endured to her lifelong friend, Pheoby. Janie’s experiences as a

Polly is a indentured girl that has to pay have Mr. Derby for her dead parent, that Mr. Derby puts in charge to teach Amari their ways. Polly did not like Amari at first

(Miller 1244) Even before we know a lot about Abigail we find out that she resorted to “devil work” to try and get rid of John Proctor’s wife. She is still in love with Proctor to a point of destroying her and anyone who gets in her way. Another quote is by Abigail herself that says, “Why, look at my leg. I’ve holes all over from their damned needles and pins.

She kills a man named Billy Weaver who is in search of a place to live. She stuffs the people who come to live there. The landlady can be considered as a serial killer because she goes through the most important phases of a serial killer

Janie meets Joe Starks, a rich entrepreneur, dazzled by his charisma she runs away and marries him and helps found Eatonville, Florida, the first all African American town. Joe wants Janie to be a mayor’s wife and not be around the rest of the people in the town because Joe thinks that she shouldn't be hanging out with someone of a lower status than them, when all Janie wants is to be free. Janie finally falls out of love with him when he hits her in front of everyone and makes her cover her hair with head rags. After Joe dies when she is 40, she burns her head rags and ends up falling in love with a poor boy called Tea Cake. Tea Cake is the only husband she ever got her dream of true love with.

The Declaration os Sentiments delegates to the first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, now known to historians as the 1848 Women's Rights Convention. The principal author of the Declaration

Sojourner Truth was a woman who had a tragic life as a slave. She was a women who had the guts to stand up for other women in the 18th century, which was quite rare. A women that fought for her slave family and friends to no longer suffer for the life they had. A women, in that time period it was historical to see a women have this much courage. Sojourner Truth, the black woman that did it all, she escaped from slavery, fought for those who were not free, and fought for woman who deserved to have a say.

Joan of Arc was charged with “heresy” and burned at the stake. Finally, John Wayne Gacy was charged with 33 counts of murder and was put to death by lethal injection.

The only woman who raised the voice against racial discrimination in the southern America was, Anne Moody. She was mostly influenced to be an active worker for civil rights from her own living society. Anne along with her family used to live in the Mr. Carter 's plantation, the white American, where many black people called Negroes were kept as slavery. A family had to adjust in a single room where there lived Anne, her sister, brother, father and her mother. As the day began darkening, all of them had to make the plantation

She then returns to Eatonville, which brings the novel back to the beginning where she tells the story to Pheoby. Janie explains to Pheoby that she has come to the realization that she now knows who she truly is and that she can make her own happiness without a man. Tea Cake was the final reminder of her newfound

Then Danny abducted Patricia and her daughter Malina and killed both of them. The type of style of killing the Danny does is beating and then shooting them to death. HE would walk at night of the streets and find the victims that are easy and then beats them before

Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a story rich with meaning and significance. The author being one of the greatest folkloric authors in history has filled this novel with countless examples of folklore and culture, each with a meaning and purpose. Even though all of the author’s examples have merit I have came to the conclusion that I have found the three best ones: the cultural references to mules, the clash of differing cultures/ people and the overall form of the novel. If I make the statement that mules are a cultural significance to a story one might think the story isn't as great as this one is unless they have read this