There are many differences, and similarities in the themes in Night versus Their Eyes Were Watching God. Night is mainly about a fight. This is the ultimate fight, the fight to stay alive. This fight for life is ongoing, and eternal, but never more prevalent as in times of war, and imprisonment, when everyone must work to stay alive. This same fight is happening in Their Eyes Were Watching God, but in a very different way. Instead of fighting for her life, Janie was searching for her love. Love brings more life, and the continuation of the species. In this way, the fights fought in Night, and in Their Eyes Were Watching God are actually quite similar. The fight to stay alive, and continue the species.
Along with the fight to stay alive, there were other fights similar in both books. This was the knowledge, that things could, and would get better. In the imprisonment camps during the holocaust, Elie from Night knew that after the war was over, life would improve. He was not assured it by anyone, but he knew in his heart, that if he could just hold on and survive he could make it to a new, brighter day.
As well, Janie was waiting for things to improve. She was "saving up feelings for some man she had never seen," for she knew that Jody was not suiting her, and that someday another man would find his way to her. (Hurston, 72) He life was slowing getting worse, and less enjoyable, and she knew that possibly another better man, would show himself at some point, for she started saving up feelings inside, for someone other than Jody, yet still unkown to her.
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