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The Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Contributed by Jennefer Ruano
Content
Overview
Context
Themes
Characters
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
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Chapter Summaries
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Chapter Summary
Chapter 1
Hurston’s novel begins with Janie Crawford’s homecoming. The forty year old African- American woman returns alone to Eatonville at sundown, walkin...
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Chapter 2
Janie Crawford’s autobiography opens with a bit of family history. Raised in West Florida about twenty years after the end of the Civil War by her g...
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Chapter 3
In Hurston’s third chapter Janie marries Logan Killicks, an older African-American man, and goes to live on his sixty acres of land. Janie doesn’t...
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Chapter 4
This chapter marks a significant transition in Janie’s life. As the dull reality of marriage continues to set in with Logan Killicks, Janie becomes...
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Chapter 5
At the outset of Hurston’s fifth chapter, newlyweds Joe and Janie Starks take a train to Eatonville, an up and coming "colored town" (32). Both are ...
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Chapter 6
The marital issues that arose between Joe and Janie Starks in Chapter Five are increasingly evident in Chapter Six. Janie becomes dissatisfied with te...
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Chapter 7
This chapter presents Janie, now age thirty-five, in a holding pattern: her outward appearance of submission to Joe is countered by her inner resilien...
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Chapter 8
Despite Chapter Seven’s fireworks, Joe and Janie continue living in the same house, although Joe begins living in a room downstairs. Soon, Joe falls...
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Chapter 9
Hurston’s ninth chapter depicts Joe’s lavish funeral. In Janie’s mind, however, Joe died long before so behind her mourning veil were feelings o...
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Chapter 10
In the tenth chapter Hurston introduces a new character who will have a significant effect on the remainder of the novel. A tall man in his mid-twenti...
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Chapter 11
Tea Cake visits Janie again one week after his initial visit in Chapter Ten. As before, Janie and Tea Cake play checkers until closing time. Afterward...
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Chapter 12
This chapter begins depicting Eatonville in shock having realized that the wealthy widow Janie and the penniless Tea Cake are doing everything - espec...
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Chapter 13
Hurston’s thirteenth chapter provides Janie with a much-needed change in scenery. With $200 hidden in her shirt, Janie takes the train to meet Tea C...
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Chapter 14
Chapter Fourteen opens in the Everglades on Lake Okechobee, where Tea Cake has found a hotel room for he and Janie to live in. Tea Cake quickly finds ...
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Chapter 15
This brief chapter serves to detail Janie’s experience with jealousy. A younger girl named Nunkie playfully teases Tea Cake in the field, attempting...
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Chapter 16
Hurston’s sixteenth chapter depicts Janie’s interactions with Mrs. Turner, an African-American woman who is prejudiced against other African-Ameri...
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Chapter 17
A new development in Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship opens Chapter Seventeen. After Mrs. Turner brings her brother over to meet Janie, Tea Cake be...
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Chapter 18
At the outset of Chapter Eighteen, Janie and Tea Cake notice large bands of Seminole Indians leaving the Everglades, worried about a hurricane; the fo...
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Chapter 19
The action-packed nineteenth chapter begins with Tea Cake being forced by two white men to help bury people killed by the hurricane’s damage. Racial...
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Chapter 20
In Hurston’s brief final chapter, Janie’s friends in the Everglades realize they were wrong to accuse Janie of Tea Cake’s murder. She stays on t...
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