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I thought that Their Eyes Where Watching God, was a great book because it talks about haw a girl, my age, goes through changes in her life. As she goes through each husband she learns more about herself. It also involves her, transforming from being a girl into a woman. Its not when she kisses Johnny Taylor. It’s when she matures in the book and after every husband she gets more mature. So was a process and she goes through the process in the book. This is what makes Their Eyes Where Watching God, a great book.

~Brandon Harrison 2nd hour

I think that this book was actually a really great book. In the first two chapters it was kind of boring, but then the plot started to show up. For being a book that we read in school, it is very interesting. The theme of ” Transition” is great, i love how alot of things in the story transitioned by the end of the story. How Janie became a confident women, how many times/ places she moved to, and how she finally found the man she loved, after marring three times. This book kept me interested and it was easy to understand. It gaves different options and opinions of people in the story, which made it better for the reader, so they could discover for themselves which things were right or which guy was good for Janie. This great book has suspense and tragedy at times, I would recommend it to anyone.

Their Eyes Where Watching God had an interesting plot but it wasn’t a good book. I didn’t enjoy reading it because the story was mostly about Janie and not about anyone else. The novel could have been more interesting if there was a better ending like if Janie would have found some way to save Tea Cake and they lived together forever. The only thing that i enjoyed about the book was when the hurricane hit and Matt Bonner didn’t leave his house.

While i was reading Their Eyes Were Watching God I thought that it was boring in the beginning. As the story went on the suspense started building. The book showed the growth and challenges that Janie had to go threw from being a young girl raised by her nanny in a white setting to a grown women traveling from husband to husband trying to figure out who she really was. As the story went on I became more interested in what Jannie was going threw and what she was going to turn out like. Not only did she go threw life not knowing who she was, she shot her husband. As the hurricane came and Tea Cake got rabbies it became more interesting. In the beginning of the book i thought it would be more like the Scarlet Letter. Just a girl who made a mistake and had to deal with the consequences but it turned into way more than that. Another thing that made TEWWG a good book was the fact that you can relate to it no matter who you are in some way, shape or form because there’s different ways you can look at it. If i had to rewind time and read the book all over again i would because it taught me alot.

The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hawthorne did not really draw the book to me. It was a good book but i do not believe that it was a great book. When i think of a great book, it must have a great plot, in a sense of it being plausible which i didnt think hawthorne portrayed in this book. It had Fantastic suspense, rising actions, and great climax points. The main reason I believe that TEEWG was not a great book is that the characters were not interesting at all to me which lead me to think that it was not a great book but only a good one.

The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hawthorne did not prove to me that it was a “great” book. When i think of a great book it must include a great plot. Hawthorne portrayed only a good plot and i say this because it was not really plausible i don’t think that this would actually happen in real life. It’s not a bad book at all i just don’t see it as great, the suspense, the many rising actions and the great climax point were just some reasons it was a good book. The main reason i do not think that TEWWG was not great was mostly because i did not think that the characters were interesting in my opinion they were just kind of ordinary and not very interesting. So overall i do not think that Their Eyes Were Watching God was NOT a great book but only a good one.

TEWWG was an okay book. This book leaves you filling like you read a love story gone bad. It seemed like a womens book. Besides all that i think that book was good, the plots and the climax leaft you thinking of janies emotion and her thoughs of what love should be. Even when you start to read this book its alittle boring but you have to read more before it hits you that this book is good. killing her husband was not a smart decicion but she did it any ways(didnt like that part at all)

The tewwg was a good book because it had a lot of up and downs. Like when one good thing would happen their would always be a bad thing. Like when Janie fell in love with tea cake he got bit by a dog. Janie had to shoot him because she ad to.That gave him rabies. So the good part was when Janie fell in love with him the bad part was when she had to put him down.

TEWWG was not a good book, because there was not much that was able to explain what happened. There was one thing that is going on and the next thing you know you are on to a different sequence of events and nothing in those series of events tells you how you got there, you just do. Not that the book’s story line is too complex (or is it?), but that it is hard to follow, that the dialect is a little too strong and it is difficult to understand what the characters are saying. Though the storyline was indeed complex there really wasn’t much too it that made the book interesting, there wasn’t that something that made the book worth reading, it was just really boring. That is why this book is not a good book at all.

I thought Their Eyes Were Watching God was over all a good book. I liked how it showed that you shouldn’t define yourself by your significant other, and how people become independent. I also liked the suspense of when Janie finally became independent, and shot Tea Cake during the hurricane. The dialogue helped make Their Eyes Were Watching God a good book because it gives the reader a better idea of the setting.

I feel that TEWWG was a good book. I thought that it grabbed my attention from the beginning. The opening scene from the book when Hurston describes the blossoms and the peach tree and the bees was interesting. It gave an interesting representation of sex. I will never look at a peach tree the same way again. It gave me a different perspective and that’s how I can tell it was a good book. It grabbed my attention in the beginning and kept it going throughout the book. Another reason it was a good book was because it had a good story line and made each character unique. Also the author wrote it in another dialect to give it a different point of view. That’s why TEWWG was a great book.

I thought Tewwg was an awsome book! I loved the dialouge throughout out the book. The emphasis on the different characters was great. I liked the way Zora Neale Hurston expressed Janie growing through her husbands.

Reading the beginning of the book wasn’t that interesting and didn’t catch my attention. Later on reading about a little girl growing up trying to find who she is caught my attention. She learns who she is and she takes it as step by step. Marrying all the different husbands made me think that it was a way for her to grow up and know that she can take care of herself. To me, the great part of the book was the hurricane. Tea Cake was the guy who she really loved, and she killed him at the end because she didn’t Tea Cake to suffer from the pain of rabies. Other than that, TEWWG was a great book because I got to learn about all the different characters that were in the book and how they all have to do something with Janie.

tewwg is a good novel. i think so because at the end janie realizes that the world or at least what happens in it is out of her control.

twwg was also a good novel because although it did not grab my attention at the beginning it grabbed me twards the end when everything started to go wrong for janie. i like to see a main character in peril, death also makes a good story in my opinion.

When i look for a book to read ; usually the first page has to catch my attention; and with TEWWG. really didnt do that. it was hard for me to really understand the ‘lingo’ but once i understood what was going on and all the characters i really statred to like it. Its one of those books that you have to realy read and not just skim through.There Eyes Were Watching God was a book that i cant really say that i liked but i can’t say that i didnt like. I really have mixed feelings about it. I usually like more i guess you can call it “girly” books but this one was really about family life and the things that women of color go through wheich was intersting to see form a differnet perspective then what you usually learn in your history class.

I felt that TEWWG was an ok book. I thought it had some flaws and sometimes confused me and lost my attention. One point that confused me a lot when Hurston would describe a tree and bees to sex. Also the dialect just made the book harder to read and I think she over did it with it. I thought that it just made it harder to understand the book alone. Even though some parts of TEWWG were catching and made me laugh here and there it still wouldn’t grab my attention enough to keep reading and enjoy it. I think that if Hurston just put a normal storyline that wasn’t so confusing it would be a good book.

TEWWG was a great book. It was very interesting and fun to read the dialects of the characters in the book. Also the plot and the storyline of the book made it very interesting in how it just wasn’t just an up and down book it had many climaxes that built up to one big climax. Also how it tracked Janie’s life throughout the book and how it showed her different husbands that she had been through and how see acted with each of her husbands. Also how she changed from husband to husband was great character development. That’s why I thought TEWWG was a great book.

I think TEWWG was a good book but the language was too hard for me to understand and to read. The idea for the book was great, the way they used the native way they spoke was interesting, it was just frustrating for myself to sit down and read it page by page. But after sitting down and talking about it with the class the basics of the book started to hit me. The theme about growing up and growing up on your own terms and really finding out who you are before you decide to do things that effect your life. If i would have to grade the book i would give it a B+ for its theme and dialogue.

Over all, Their Eye’s Were Watching God was a good book. I like that it showed what Janie was to what she is now. I feel that you have to go through a struggle in order to grow. Everything isn’t handed to you on a silver platter. And Janie had to find that out the hard way. Janie thought that she could define who she was through her husbands. The greatest lesson that she learned was to be able to love who she was before she could anyone else. If Janie didn’t know how to love herself than how would she be able to give her love to someone else? I love how Zora Neale Hurston puts the theme of independence and self development into the novel.

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