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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Great Identity Search


In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there
are many lessons on a person's search for identity. Janie's search for identity
throughout this book is very visible. It has to do with her search for a name,
and freedom for herself. As she goes through life her search takes many turns
for the worse and a few for the better, but in the end she finds her true
identity. Through her marriages with Logan, Joe, then Tea Cake she figures out
what is for her and how she wants to live. So in the end, she is where she
wants to be.
In Janie's early life she lived with her grandmother, Nanny. Nanny and
Janie were pretty well off and had the privilege to live in the yard of white
folks. While Janie was growing up she played with the white children. While
she was in this stage, she was faced with much criticism and was called many
names, so many that everyone started calling her alphabet, "'cause so......

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