Question

do you think janie is zora or is she just a character?

Answer 1

It is quite often assumed that there is a connection between a writer's very own life and the thoughts and actions of characters in their fictional work, which seems to be obvious as very often parallels in experiences, settings and historical or political backgrounds in autobiographies and novels, for example, can be found.

In this paper I will deal with these parallels in regard to the life of Afro-American writer Zora Neale Hurston1 and Janie, the main character in her novel `Their Eyes were watching God' with focus on setting and character.

At first I am going to focus on what might be called home for Zora and Janie. I will deal with the town of Eatonville, which is the birthplace of Zora and later becomes part of the setting in "Their Eyes were watching God". With regard to what the term home itself means, I will also elaborate on the different places Zora and Janie used to live in and on the aspects of what a home makes.

Janie and Zora herself seem to have a lot in common and it seems as if the writer makes Janie experience some of the things she experienced herself, so I will focus on this connection between writer and fictional character more detailed in regard to their families, friends, marriages and relationships to other people, which will be dealt with in Chapter II.

In the end I am going to summarize what I have written about so far and give a final conclusion on the theory of parallelism between writer and character in regard to the analysis of the connection between Zora and Janie.

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