Janie's Relationship to the Black Communities in Zora Neale Hurston's novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: Janie's Relationship to the Black Communities in: Their Eyes Were Watching God. The following essay will examine the relationship between Janie and the three different black communities in Zora Neale Hurston's novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' In this story the reader is confronted with the protagonist Janie who searches for the one and true love and therefore marries three completely different types of men. Two of her husbands also influence the relationship to the other black people living around her. First of all the relationship between the protagonist and the community where she grew up shall be examined, then between her as the wife of the mayor Joe Starks and the people living in Eatonville and at last the relationship to society in the Everglades where Janie lived and worked together with her third husband, Tea Cake.