Eyes Were Watching God
Essays

Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a story of self-actualization. a.H. Maslow, describes self-actualization as "What a man can be, he must be. (Maslow, 1943).

The African-American heritage in the American society has experienced a long history of bondage to the slavery system, which created the divide between the white and black Americans in the country.

Zora Neale Hurston's most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was first published in 1937, but the characters she created and the situations they face are timeless, and still reverberate strongly today.