Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter Summary

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Chapter Prompts
Chapter One: Explore the nature, and the quality, of the friendship between Pheoby and Janie.
The nature of their relationship is one of true trust. She trusts theory enough to tell her story to and to have her as a champion to tell her story to the girls who sit on the porch and talk about her.

Chapter Two: Explore marriage as an important element in prose fiction you have studied. Pay some attention in your response to the status of being ‘not married’, and to the pressures, characters feel to marry.
The idea of marriage in Their eyes was watching god is that of a form of protection. This is seen by how Nanny responded to marriage in that it wants for love and that marriage was for protection and security.

Chapter Three: …show more content…

Nanny yells at Janie for not appreciating Logan’s wealth, status and protection
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Chapter Four: How does Janie demonstrate her independence of spirit here? Why do we feel anxious for her?
Janie demonstrates her independence of spirit in this chapter by saying that she never will love Logan. After Logan then breaks down and afterward, Janie leaves to meet Jody. she married him at the first opportunity and set out for the new town, the to be Eatonville.

Chapter Five: Section 1 (to ‘...far away from things and lonely.’):
What part does human aspiration play in this section?
Aspiration in this chapter played the role in taking Jody away from Janie. Janie used to be a major portion of Jody's time to which he then switched it
What view does Zora Neale Hurston appear to take of it?
That to have an aspiration you need to give up things to focus on them.

Section 2 ‘An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens’ (Thomas Jefferson). Explore the means by which, in a novel or play of your choice, one character attempts to exercise control over other people. How successful is he (or she)? How does the writer want us to feel about the character’s success – or

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