Book Review!

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was a fairly good book. Hurston is an exceptional writer. Her characters were all very real and became a personal friend. She beautifully captured the culture of the people of the time and place in which she wrote. She got a lot of criticism for stereotyping the black population. I believe that those critics did indeed view her novel the wrong way. I believe her characters and the events that they were involved in were legitimate. Assuming that Zora was applying that to the entire black race was ludicrous. Nearly as ludicrous as saying all Muslims are terrorists. That's completely false. I think her intentions were good and that her novel was simply about a young women's story of love and growing up.

The entire novel was beautiful in writing and plot, all except the end. I was not a personal fan of the way Tea Cake died. I feel like their relationship held so much love that he should have died a peaceful death, not a death of illness. I also feel like the trial for Janie should have been avoided. It felt random. Her husband died and then there is a complete different dynamic in trial that makes a difficult transition for the reader. I enjoyed the last page of the novel when Janie is breathing in the peace of her experiences with Tea Cake. Other than the sporadic ending, I enjoyed the novel.

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