Searching for an Inner-Self in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Nea

prying for an Inner-Self in Their look Were Watching perfection by Zora Neale HurstonIn the apologue Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston a young miss named Janie begins her life sentence un lie withn to herself. She searches for the horizon as it illustrates the distance one must conk in order to distinguish between illusion and reality, dream and truth, single-valued function and self? (Hemenway 75). She is unaware of life?s two most peculiar gifts love and the truth. Janie is raised(a) by her suppressive grandmother who diminishes her view of life. Janie?s quest for true identity emerges from her paths in life and ultimatly ends when her mind is freed from faux reality.Failing to recognize herself as the one black child in a photograph, Janie begins her story without a name or color (Meese 62). ?Dey entirely uster call me Alaphabet? cause so many people had done named me various names? (Hurston 9). The revelation doesn?t devastate Janie, rather it stands as both a symbol of nursemaid?s unrealistic attempts to shield the girl from life and a metaphor for Janie?s lack of self-knowledge (Williams 100). nurse raised Janie through her own dreams ?of what a woman oughta be and do? (Hurston 100). Nanny projects a stereotypical identity and a secure future for Janie found on what she knows, which is limited by the historical constraints of what she has seen of the white man?s power over blacks (Meese 62). She tries to control Janie under her own rules and unfair authority. Nanny tells Janie,Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as far as Ah been adequate to find out. Maybe it?s someplace off in the naval where the black man is in power, but we don?t know nothi?n about what we see. So de white man throw dash off the load and tell de nigger ... ...lating the Rage of Black Women and Narrative Self-Defense.? African American Review 26.1 1992) 147-159.Hemenway, Robert E. Crayon Enlargement of Life. Modern Critical View s Zora Neale Hurston. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1986. 72-80.Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York Harper & Row, 1990.Johnson, Barbra. ?Metaphor, Metonymy and Voice.? Hemenway 160-168.Jones, Evora. ? Scent and Immersion Narrative behavior in Their Eyes Were Watching God.? College Language Association Journal 39 (1996) 369-379.Kaplan, Carla. ?The Oldest Human Longing.? American Literature 61.1 (1995) 115-124Meese, Elizabeth A. ?Ortality and Texuality in Their Eyes Were Watching God? Crossing the Double Cross The Practice of Feminist Criticism. North Carolina Press, 1986. 59-70.Williams, Shirly A. ?Janie?s Burden.? Hemenway 98-105.