eyes were watching god

Chris Willis Dr. M Newlin English 306 Monday, May 15, 2000 Nanny, a Mule, and a Pear Tree: Janie’s Beginning Zora Neale Hurston's work provides the African-American community with a one of the first literary symbols of racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings. Appropriately, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, provides an enlightening look at the journey of one of these undiminished human beings, Janie Crawford. Janie's …

…the way you see things" (89). If one has the intuition to look out over the horizon and dream, take a chance, acknowledge fear, he or she will be able to live life to the fullest. Once well traveled there can be a impression of meaning and substance that lives in the quite of one’s soul not in the recognition of others. Works Cited Hurston, Zora Neale . Their Eyes Were Watching God . New York : HarperCollins. 1937