Similarities Between Hurston’s Novels, Seraph on the Suwanee and Their Eyes Were Watching God :: Compare Comparison Essays

Similarities Between Hurstons Novels, Seraph on the Suwanee and Their Eyes Were Watching GodSeraph foliate 153 So, calling soothingly to Earl, Jim started from the south border of the sink hole and began to pick along to where Earl stood braced between two great cypress trees. Earls slip was cold and unrecognizing. Jim caught hold to vines and shrubs to keep from slipping off the precarious footing into the water, and said nice things to Earl and kept going. He was a good half counseling along the dangerous route when Earl stepped forth and leveled the rifle and took aim. Eyes page 184 He steadied himself against the jam of the door and Janie thought to run into him and grab his arm, except she saw the quick motion of taking aim and heard the click. Saw the ferocious look in his eyes and went mad with fear as she had through with(p) in the water that time. She threw up the barrel of the rifle in frenzied hope and fear. Hope that hed see it and run, desperate fear for her life. provided if teatime Cake could have counted costs he would not have been there with the pistol in his hands. No knowledge of fear nor rifles nor anything else was there. He gainful no more attention to the pointing gun than if it were Janies dog finger. She saw him stiffen himself all over as he leveled and took aim. The fiend in him must kill and Janie was the only thing living he saw. Ms. Hurstons two books Seraph on the Suwanee and Their Eyes Were Watching God are remarkably similar in many aspects, and I believe that these two passages exemplify that likeness. These two scenes take place just before a person is shot, Tea Cake in Eyes, and earl in Seraph. Janie kills (shoots) Tea Cake because he contracted rabies during the hurricane by a dog, and Earl was killed (shot) by several of the townsmen because he tried to rape Lucy Ann. Both Tea Cake and Earl were rendered mad and lost all humanity due to their circumstances. Both men needed help long before someone realized they c ould perhaps be a danger to themselves or others. Both men were killed for attacking a woman, even though they clearly could not control themselves. Jim and Janie both evidence to help, but ultimately fail.