The timeless novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, talks about many values through Janie's life. The values that Janie has are most likely the values the author has as well. The main character Janie is a strong, determined woman. Throughout the book she struggles to find and live her dream. Unlike her Nanny, Janie has hopes of marrying for love and living a good and happy life. Nanny however, wanted Janie to marry a wealthy man so that Janie would always have stability and be taken care of. Janie understands what Nanny is telling her and realizes why Nanny feels this way, being a former slave and all.( Hurston, 15) Janie then decides that she will marry Logan. Janie tells Nanny that her main concern is that she is afraid she will never truly love Logan. Nanny reassures her that with time she will come to love him very much.
Even after reading just the first few chapters of the book, you can tell some of the values that are important to the author. Janie possesses many traits, one of them being determination. Janie is always determined to follow her dreams even if the situation doesn't work out the way she planned, she always moves forward. Another thing that I believe is probably important to the author is respect. No matter who the person is, Janie is always looking for one specific thing from them and that is respect. She wanted Logan to respect her, and in the future she wanted the same from Jody and Tea Cake. (Hurston, 31)
At the beginning of the book the narrator is clearly omniscient. The narrator is third person because the narrator gives you the inside thoughts of Janie. Most of the book is this way, but there are some parts where it is pure dialogue.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Print.
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