Their Eyes Where Watching God

The book and the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (personally one of my favorite authors) is very inspirational and uplifting for women. Halle Berry plays the role of Janie who keeps her pride and voice inside because her husband thinks she should basically be seen and not heard. She finds love with a man 12 years younger named Tea Cake and becomes the woman she always wanted to be. Free. Zora Neale Hurston wrote several stories about women who found freedom in different ways and the movie allowed some of her writings to come together and form an excellent setting and story line. The setting was in Eatonville which she (Hurston) had wrote a story about and named it the Eatonville Anthology where she gave the word stereotype a whole new name when she described each character from the highly African American populated town. In this story she tells her readers about a woman who left just as Janie did and returned with more knowledge due to experience. Once she returned people made accusations but no one really knew what she had been through.