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 In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, goes through 3 different marriages, Logan, Joe/Jody, and Tea Cake. None of these marriages sustain, as we see Janie's breakup with Logan and Jody, and Janie at the beginning of the novel returns with no husband, which implies things went awry with Tea Cake in the end. However, the marriage that seemed to have the most promise was with Tea Cake. From the beginning, Logan was portrayed in a negative light by the narrator, and that marriage ended rather quickly. However, the other two marriages were a bit different. Jody was originally portrayed as a "knight in shining armor" for Janie so she can run away from Logan, however we quickly learn he is not quite the man she wanted. Jody enforces gender roles very hard on Janie, and he also forces her to do all sorts of stuff against her will, like wearing a head rag. He also won't let Janie do anything she wants to do, like join the co

In Invisible Man  we see the narrator develop and progress as a person throughout the novel, and that is the main premise of the novel. The narrator goes through so much change, going from a young black man trying to please the white man at any chance he gets, to a civil rights activist advocating for equality for all, and everything in-between. These changes are quite obvious to the reader, yet I think we must consider the fact that the narrator is writing this story we've been following this whole time in his basement full of lights. This means that time has been passing why the narrator recollects his experiences in the past few years. In my opinion, throughout this time that the narrator was writing the novel he has progressed as a character as well. At the beginning of the novel the narrator talks in sort of an individualistic tone, talking about how he is an invisible man, and sort of complaining to the reader about how he is invisible and how nobody can relate to him. He exp

 In Invisible Man  we see the narrator go through multiple changes throughout the book, most notably his huge turnaround from trying to please the white man at any chance he can get, to what we know him as at this point in the book, which is a speaker and protestor for African-American rights and equality. Yet, I think that the narrator hasn't learned nearly as much as he thinks, as his naivety is still prominent in his everyday actions. He still faces racism in his everyday life in the North, yet he does not recognize it past the more obvious types. He still holds on to some of his dark, racist past, but not in the same way that Brother Tarp does. Brother Tarp has a shackle from when he broke free of slavery, to serve as a reminder of what he's been through. He gives the narrator this shackle, offering him similar advice to the grandfather when he cautions the narrator to never become too complacent about his freedom. However, the narrator doesn't really think much of it,

In Invisible Man  we see the narrator go through a variety of changes over the chapters, with the narrator starting with this idea that if he works hard and pleases enough people he will be a successful person. But as time goes on and he moves to New York, he begins to develop more ideas of rebellion, free thinking, and thinking past just pleasing the white man. Bledsoe's betrayal of the narrator is what ultimately sets this off, and he thinks completely different after the "Liberty Paints Incident", where he is almost rebirthed as a completely different man. However, this whole transformation can be related back to one quote which has shaped the narrator's entire life. The narrator explains that his grandfather's dying words were "Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstructi

  Native Son by Richard Wright is a novel published in 1940 about a 20 year old young African American man named Bigger Thomas living in the poor suburbs of Chicago. The novel provides social commentary on systemic racism and how it negatively affects the lives and the choices of African Americans. What happens to Bigger is seemingly a result of the systemic racism that he faces, almost giving a sense of inevitability to the crime that he commits. This is where the idea of naturalism comes into play. Naturalism is the philosophical belief that that everything happens because of natural causes and that animals and humans react to these natural causes and that leads to the decisions they make. This is perfectly exemplified in the story of Bigger Thomas. Bigger lives in a completely run down and rat infested one room apartment along with his mother, his younger sister, and his younger brother. He is very poor and resorts to crime to make most of his money. Because of his significantly les