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A 4 page paper which examines the significance of the pear tree in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” No additional sources cited.
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goes through much of her life. She is an African American woman who is simple, as is expected in the times, and a woman who cannot read and relies heavily
on her own thoughts and the images she gains from nature and her soul. One image in the book that appears a few times, but is rather significant, is the
image of a pear tree. The following paper examines the significance and meaning of this pear tree. The Pear Tree In the beginning of this story we see
Janie essentially being pressured into marrying a man because he has land and a house, something that is quite rare in a black man. She lives with her grandmother and
it is her grandmother who is doing most of the pressuring. Janie is rather ignorant and rather simple, only because her life has not given her a great deal of
education. As such she has watched nature and what little she experiences, relating things together and learning from life itself. When we first see the pear tree we can see
it as a symbol of her knowledge, her soul, and her desires in life. She is not a woman who reads and thus only gathers the ideas she can through
observation. The pear tree is a very powerful teacher for Janie. "Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. She had been spending
every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree" (Hurston 10). This is the place where she could delve into her soul, think about life, and truly
grow and learn, contemplating things she experienced. Here she was free and the symbolic nature of the pear tree in bloom, and the innocent passion of bees and the pear
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