Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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Horizon is the line that separates the surface and the sky in appearance; the horizon is also known as a person’s experience, how they perceive the world around them. In Zora Neale Hurston's “Their eyes were watching god,” Hurston uses the word horizon several times in the book in third person, and in first person by the main character Janie. In “Their eyes were watching god,” Janie a girl grows into adulthood through three marriages and experiences its ups and downs. The symbol of the horizon in “Their eyes were watching god,” represents the dreams of men and realities of women, it symbolizes Janie’s growth in her life.
In the beginning of the book starts with an expression including the word horizon, the author places this word to explain that …show more content…

For some
they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
The horizon owns the ship with everyone's wish on board, that ship on the horizon can sail forever and never be reached, the wish and dream is killed by time, “this is the life of men.” The author uses the horizon as a symbol, it also foreshadows how Janie’s life is long and exhausting journey but fulfilling when she reaches her wish.
Her wish is being loved and having a place in the world, after her first two marriages she seemed to be chasing a ship that she would never reach because it being far off in the horizon. But after marriage with Tea Cake and experiencing his death she mentions the horizon.
Now, dat’s how everything wuz, Pheoby, jus’ lak Ah told yuh. So Ah’m back
home agin and Ah’m satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons. Dis house ain’t so absent of things lak it used tuh be befo’ Tea Cake come along. It’s full uh thoughts, ’specially dat

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