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Zora Neale Hurston parallels the porch to Janie’s expressions; how she feels both emotionally and physically in the different stages of Janie’s life in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston was born in Eatonville Florida, the same place w ....

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.... what makes me skeered. You don’t mean no harm. You don’t even know where harm is at. Ah’m ole now. Ah can’t be always guidin’ yo’ feet from harm and danger. Ah wants to see you married right away.” These are some of the best times in Janie’s life, but all good things do not last forever and she will soon pay her dues. At and early age Janie is married to a man named Logan Killicks, the man her grandmother has chosen for her. There are no porch scenes during this stage in Janie’s life. Janie feels empty and very unsatisfied with Logan. The porch in this stage of the novel represents the things that Janie wan ....