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Their Eyes Were Watching God - Coggle Diagram
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Resiliency
Is Janie Crawford resilient? Why or why not?
What effect does resilience have on the novel as a whole?
Race
What is the next step in Black liberation, and how can the United States achieve it?
Formalism
Search for meaning
Does Janie find meaning by the end of the novel?
Throughout the book, how does Janie look outside herself for fulfillment?
Relationships
Are Janie's marriages representative of different ideas about marriage from the Harlem Renaissance?
Self-worth
How has Janie's sense of self-worth changed over the course of the book?
Community
What are some values that Janie's community holds and how are they similar or different to today's?
How does the novel create a sense of community through the characters and how they interact?
Gender
How did different groups of men treat Janie and her female peers throughout each section of the novel?
What modern feminist ideals can be found in Hurston's work?