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Summary: The role of suffering in the novel
Review: I would have to agree that this book is among the best I have read. I'm not a big book fan, but this one hit me and motivated me to keep on reading. A common theme people often mention is the role love played in the novel. We should also keep in mind the theme of suffering and how the characters in the novel react to suffering, also how their reactions show their understanding of God.
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Summary: an African American woman's search for autonomy
Review: I studied this book in school (I'm in 10th grade). It is a good book with many symbols, as the reader follows Janie through the story of her life while she searches to achive self-autonomy. She starts her journey as a young and nieve girl searching for love, and ends a strong, autonomous, woman. Hurston does a good job taking the reader along with Janie on her journey to her horizen.
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Summary: excellent and enjoyable story - couldn't put it down!
Review: It's hard for me to believe this novel didn't become popular until recently. It is one of the few great narratives I have read this year. It is eye-opening, emotional, gripping, and very informative into the culture of black-Americans in the early part of this century. This work pulls the reader into its world with the dialogue and flowing action. Definitly worth the investment. I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: It changed my views on life
Review: I was amazed by the depth of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Every detail of the story I felt I could relate to in some way and then Zora Neale Hurston had her own insights to add. I thoguht the book was well-written and the sequence of events was profound. I learned that what is right for me cannot be challenged, but that not every persons right is the same.
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Summary: A great story but hard to follow
Review: I am currently reading this book at a university and I find it is one of the hardest books that I ever read. The story however is great and it shows how wemen have historically been abused, and seen as housewifes all along. Zora Neal really captures the feeling of the 30's-60's. I would recommend this book to a person if they have a lot of time on their hands.
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Summary: Definitely touching!
Review: For non English native speakers, it can be quite hard to understand, but once you get really into it, you'll love the strength of this woman!
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Summary: I like this book better every time I read it.
Review: I teach "Their Eyes" to high school juniors and seniors every semester. Usually, we read it aloud in class to get the full effect of the dialect. What fun! They really get into the story. They argue about whether Janie was a spoiled brat (because she wouldn't help Logan) and wonder why she didn't get rabies from Tea Cake (because he bit her as he died). But mostly they just love the whole love story. On a recent essay, one student wrote, "Janie always kept her door wide open. What she didn't like in her life, she let blow right through. And what she liked, she kept." You gotta love that kind of response as a teacher. It's a wonderful, thought provoking book.
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Summary: The best high school required reading ever.
Review: I had to read this novel when I took AP Literature in high school. I enjoyed reading it more than any other required reading I have ever had.
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Summary: I look forward to reading more of Hurston 's work
Review: Hurston does an excellent job of articulating the complexities of female opression. She uses language and thought processes specific to African American people during that time. Oddly, her writing style reminds me of Shakespear in that they both use the language of the people about whom they write. Early English for Shakespear, Early Ebonics for Hurston. This story is a wonderful piece of literary writing, it is poetic, romantic, and symbolic of our ongoing desire to connect with a life long partner with whom we can grow and expand to our full existence in the universe. An excellent book, we should grow up reading this one.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I used to work in a bookstore, and would always be convincing people to buy "Their Eyes Were Watching God" one time I sold it to a fairly annoying, skeptical guy who came back the next day to thank me for making him buy it. He said it changed his life. I believe this book to be very powerful, and you can bet I'm not going to stop cajoling unsuspecting folks of reading it's fine pages.
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