I read this book during homerooms mostly, and selected it because it's required for the AP class I'm teaching. I didn't choose the book, but it's one of those that I always anticipated reading, yet never picked up. Their Eyes tells the story of Janie, a woman who survives three different marriages, but barely. Perhaps the most interesting thing in the story is the fact that when Janie finds the love she has been looking for through the stroy, she winds up having to kill the source of it before he kills her. This is one of those stories that to truly understand I imagine I would have to read several times. The dialouge's dialect (how's that for alliteration?) are difficult, and each time I picked it up I would have to concentrate on hearing my internal reader. A lot of times after reading a "CLASSIC" story, I'm not sure if I "got it." Should I reflect on different scenes or think of something that I haven't considered yet? That's kind of how I feel after reading Their Eyes. I'm probably misisng something that I will find after a second or third reading.
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