"Their Eyes Were Watching God" and Horizons

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God", by Nora Zeale Hurston, is like a mystery novel in which the author tells the solution to the mystery first and then holds the reader's interest by explaining exactly how he or she arrived at the solution. This paper discusses the protagonist, Janie, the story of her life, unsolved mysteries, and the imagery of horizons throughout the novel.

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"Janie's final horizon was self-preservation. While all her other horizons had been imaginary, reflecting her longing to grow up or to grow somehow "bigger" than she thought she was, the decision to kill Tea Cake rather than let him kill her was the first adult act Janie performed. It was the final horizon, but it could not have been crossed at all if Janie had not grown up enough to protect herself. Janie sails through the trial. Moreover, she gives Tea Cake a truly extravagant burial, befitting for the agent that brought her to the final horizon she needed to find, herself."

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