Examples Of Figurative Language In Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when in the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.” This quote ties to the challenges Janie faces when trying to achieve her goal of finding the true meaning of love. In today’s society divorce has been higher than ever. About 40 to 50 married couples in the United States get divorced. After all the cruel experiences Janie’s gone through she still managed to

achieve her dream of true love. In the novel “Their eyes were watching god” Zora Hurston uses figurative language to display the process of going through constant struggles in marriages will help you achieve finding true peace within yourself.

For many people love comes easily or within a short time, but for Janie it took much longer. Love was always very important to Janie. With Janie’s first husband which Nanny arranged. Feeling unloved and used Janie decided to leave logan and keep going on her search for love. “The morning road air was like a new dress”. This quote is an example of a simile revealing all the hope Janie still had for herself after leaving Logan. Dealing with many restrictions put by people in her life Janie always just dealt with stuff and went on without complaining like most women did in that time. Jody Sparks played a major role in Janie’s quest of finding herself. “To my thinkin’ mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief.” After Jody’s death Janie feels a quick feelings of independence. Jody being represented as a character who tries to be dominate of others and is cruel makes Janie understand that in a relationship there has to be equality in order to be happy. Being a man who saw Janie as an object makes Janie speak up and stop muting herself. She rebels against him and destroys his will. Showing women can gain equality for

themselves. Janie shows many inequality examples with her two first marriages. Within every bad marriage Janie was able to take a little good from it. With her first marriage with Logan, she realized you can’t just force love. With her second marriage with Joe Sparks she learned that both people in a relationship have to give each other equal respect in order to be happy. With her last marriage with Tea Cake she finally found what she was looking for, true love and happiness. Tea Cake the opposite of Jody Sparks played a very supportive role in Janie’s quest. Even though Janie had already began to stand up to Jody, and she began to develop her own voice after Jody’s death, Tea Cake helped her some what. Respecting Janie and encouraging her to follow her goals instead of treating her like a farm animal and making her keep quiet gives a stronger sense to self to Janie “Ah done been done tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set in mah house and live by comparisons.” Page 191 After her harsh journey of trying to find true love Janie was able to grow into a independent women. In the novel “Their eyes were watching god” Zora Neale Hurston uses all sorts of figurative language to tell us that with every failure in life there will always be success of the ultimate quest to self-discovery. In one way or another, everyone has felt unconscious in one’s own mind, but like Janie were all on a quest to free ourselfs and exploring our own identity.