Journal 8 Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Journal 8 - Chapter 18

The significance of the title is that although people may do things to change their lives or make them better, God can step in and, in the case of this novel, ruin what was good. This novel suggests that God does not seem to care about or help any of the characters, the only real mention of God in the book is during times of crisis, such as the hurricane in chapter 18. This suggests that people achieve the things that happen, and God's primary "job" is to screw things up. Although this is a rather pessimistic view of God, that is what I took Hurston to mean throughout the book. People achieve things, and after these things are achieved, they must keep their eyes watching God to make sure that he doesn't change things up for them.