Their Eyes Were Watching God….

Chapter 7, 8 & 9

Text: PDF
https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/88253919-their-eyes-were-watching-god-b
y-zora-neale-hurston.pdf
Audio: Chapter 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjxbR-cmNVA&list=PL79XEuIN26cIyEzvKcVc676mx1vMaQ
Edo&index=12
Audio: Chapter 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy1COxeoIhM&list=PL79XEuIN26cIyEzvKcVc676mx1vMaQ
Edo&index=13
Audio: Chapter 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JT4K0rgeU&list=PL79XEuIN26cIyEzvKcVc676mx1vMaQE
do&index=14

How has Janie changed so far in the novel?

1.- behavior
2. - personality
3. - physical features
4. - thoughts
5. - relationship with spouse
6. - relationships with others

Explain the change in Janie and her relationship with Jody.

After Jody stood up for herself, their relationship drifted even apart. Their relationship was
quiet with no love.

As you continue to read in the pdf with the audio of Chapter 8 and 9, find evidence of
the following themes in the novel. In the chart below add quotes that fit the theme.
Quotes should be 10 words or less. YOU MUST ADD PAGE NUMBERS for
parenthetical citations. Add 10 or more quotes total to this list (in any column.)

GENDER ROLES POWER RACE DREAMS

 ● Janie ● Janie burnt ● Janie hated ●
attends up all her Nanny’s
Jody’s head rags thoughts on
funeral and and wore her marriage
pretends to hair out for and life.
be in the first time. Being a
mourning to (p.129) slave caused
convince the ● Janie made Nanny to
town that her the decision prioritize
love for Jody to wear security in a
was real. white but marriage.
(p.129) continued to (p.130)
● decline all ●
the
advances of
men. (p.133)
● Janie now
recognizes
her strength
for self
defense and
uses her
words to
push Jody to
his demise.
(p.127)

A Bildungsroman is a novel about growing up or "coming of age". You

have been tracking Janie’s growth and development. List words that
describe Janie at different stages of her life
Chapter 1-3
Janie as a child living with her grandmother:
● Faced Racism
● Bullied
● No sense of the world
● Absentee parents

Chapter 4-5
Janie (16- 17yo) in her marriage to Logan Killicks:
● One sided
● Did not make love
Chapter 5-8
Janie (17-35 yo) in her marriage to Jody Starks:
● Abusive
● Inferior
● No power
● No love
● Worked to death
● Controlling

Chapter 9
Janie, after Stark’s death:
● Independence
● Freedom
● New dreams
● Inner strength