The shore, the calm swaying of the trees, the gentle rustle of the leaves with the cool wind running through, clear skies without a cloud in sight, the calm of the water, the smell of the sea; The calm before the storm. It is captivating, it is beautiful, it is deceiving, it is dangerous. Much like the relationship between Joe Starks and Janie Crawford in Zora Neal Hurtson’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. In this book, the fluctuations of human rights and feminism throughout the pages follow the life of the 3 times married Janie Crawford. It displays the importance of having a voice and how the presence and absence of feminism and human rights can impact that voice, whether those fluctuations represent the silencing of that voice or the strengthening
