To me, awakening means to discover something for the first time. Sometimes that something that’s discovered is usually yourself. When you discover yourself, you realize that you are actually free and you control your actions. That’s when it turns into an awakening of individualism. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford battles to find individualism within herself. All her life, Janie had been pushed around and told what to do and how …showed first 75 words of 1199 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1199 total…the end, Janie found what she was looking for: individualism. She searched all her life to find what was within herself, and one special person was all that was needed to bring it out in her. She didn’t need to be with him for protection, or to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor’s wife, she just needed of love and affection to bring out what was best in her.