The Characterization of Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston which is set in the 1930’s explores the life of an African American women from the south, that trying to find herself. The protagonist of this novel is Janie Crawford. In the novel, Janie is going on a journey to find who she really is and to find spiritual enlightenment. To help shape Janie character in this novel Hurston is influence by the philosophical view from the Romanticism, and Realism movement in addition she is influence by the social events that were happing in the Modernism period. Even though when Zora Neale Hurston wrote the inspiring novel in 1937 right at the end of the modernism era, Hurston was influence by the philosophy from the modernism movement. During this time, which took place between 1880-1860 people, determined things by using their feeling over reason and nature over civilization? â€Å"That brought her wide awake. She bolted upright and peered out of the window and saw Johnny Taylor lacerating her Janie with a Kiss. â€Å"Janie!† the old woman’s voice was so†¦in command and reproof†¦that Janie half...