People and animals share many characteristics. We sometimes compare people to animals by saying that “he is hard working like a mule” or that “she is clever like a fox”. If we consider the theory of evolution people came from and are even now just another species of animals that live on Earth. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God we can find all throughout the novel important animals and the comparison …showed first 75 words of 2176 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2176 total…before he died, will she now turn into a mad dog herself and die as a wild animal? We know that Janie also traveled around and maybe the comparison to a stray could also be used. She shot her lover so maybe dying as a mad dog is god’s punishment to her. We all have qualities and characteristics that we share with animals and this fact is greatly represented in this Hurston’s novel.