What is love?

Many people often dream of finding “the one” in their lives, but it is usually not easy and often results unhappiness and internal conflict. Hurston uses the main character Janie, in order to display how Janie solves internal conflict. Janie was raised by her grandmother and had always dream of true love especially after she experiences a moment of self awakening while sitting under the pear tree. This self-awakening had caused her grandmother to quickly wed Janie to her first husband, Logan. Janie reluctantly agrees, and begins her life long journey to find love. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses Janie’s three marriages and her internal conflicts to show how Janie discovers both herself and the meaning of

Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God recounts the life and loves of a bi-racial woman in the racially charged South during the 1900s. After the death of her third husband, Janie returns to Eatonville amid judgment and gossip, prompting her to share her life’s lessons with dear friend Phoeby. As Hurston’s protagonist relives her turbulent loves, she embarks of a journey of self-discovery, her voice transforming from suppressed to empowered over the course of her marriages.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s romantic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the heroine Janie, a beautiful mixed white and black woman, is on a journey to find someone who will make her feel love to find her own identity and freedom, away from her spouses. Janie’s marriages and quest for love impede her individual search for freedom, but in doing this she has discovered what exactly she wants for herself. Janie’s search for her identity and freedom is very much evident. Being abused and controlled during her marriages has made it clear how she wants to be treated and how she wants to live her life; as an individual who does not have to listen to anyone. The story opens with Janie’s return to town. Janie tells Phoebe Watson the story of her

Zora Neale Hurston had an intriguing life, from surviving a hurricane in the Bahamas to having an affair with a man twenty years her junior. She used these experiences to write a bildungsroman novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, about the colorful life of Janie Mae Crawford. Though the book is guised as a quest for love, the dialogues between the characters demonstrate that it is actually about Janie’s journey to learn how to not adhere to societal expectation.

“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford struggles to find true love. Throughout the novel, she marries and estranges from three different husbands. The first husband, Logan Killicks, seems to be Janie's first true love, but he turns out to be weak and lazy. Janie’s second “love” Joe- Jody- Starks beats Janie both physically and mentally, and Jody overrules her with his obsessive need for power. Lastly, she marries and moves away with Tea Cake after Jody dies. Tea Cake was Janie's final and only genuine love. Throughout the novel, the author validates the critical lens of

Love is something that everyone hopes to find at some point in their life. On the journey to find true love, we may find that love can come in many different forms. Few people ever find the kind of passionate love that seems to exist mostly in fairytales. The main character in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, spends most of her life in search of that same genuine, unpretentious fairytale love; a love that she compares to the marriage between bees and the blossoms on pear trees. On her journey to find that kind of love, Janie discovers that there is more than one way to love someone.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, the protagonist, experiences relief at the end of the novel. The novel begins at the end, emphasizing the importance of her moral reconciliation. Though at the beginning, it appears she returns home defeated, it is contrary. She returns home triumphant in finding her peace and fulfillment. When Janie starts to take things into her own hands instead of relying on her faith of others, she finally finds herself and joy. She needed to experience love in her own way to find what she was missing and what she needed in her love and her life.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s ultimate desire is to find the perfect marriage with a man she loves. However, the desires of her community hinder her ability to find love. In the novel, Hurston uses the motif of the horizon – characterized as a place where ships with “every man’s wish on board” (1) sails – to symbolize ambitions and desires, and she uses the motif of the road to represent the journey it takes to achieve one’s dreams. Through the symbolism of the motifs, Hurston expresses the vanity of materialistic desires, the value of living life, the impact people have on each other’s dreams.

In the beginning of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie, the main character, struggles to find what the true meaning the word “love” is until her last marriage. Janie marries three times throughout the novel. With three different men at three different ages, she encounters three new perspectives. Janie suffered two unhappy marriages before she could find her true love.

Everyone wants to say they lived their life to the fullest. Janie, the main character in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston is no different. With the help of finding love, Janie reaches her horizon when she feels comfortable with her life experiences and realizes her self-worth. Janie goes through a spiritual reassessment after having unique occurrences with three different husbands. At the end of the novel, she can sit back, reflect on her life and truly be satisfied.

In the book, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" the main conflict is shown through Janie's, the main character, quest for spiritual fulfillment and love. Janie clashes with the values that others imposed upon her. Throughout the book she is trying to find love. Love to Janie is not only physical passion but an emotional connection, like the bumble bee and the pear tree, she sat under as a child. Zora Neale Hurston represents this through Janie's three marriages in this book.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie goes through the strenuous journey of life continuously searching for love. From a young age Janie was awestruck with her distinct idea of love and marriage, and this idea would set her standards for her three marriages. Each marriage enlightened her with unique perspectives that would help carry her into the next relationship and then eventually a content lifestyle. Although each relationship proved beneficial in the end of Janie’s story along the journey there were times of conflict that would test the loyalty and strength of each relationship, but would help to lead to a happy life for Janie. Hurston develops conflict by weaving through each of Janie’s

Love, sorrow, hope and faith were all prevalent in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston. The main character Janie went through life knowing there was something great waiting for her that would lead her to happiness and she always looked up to God for hope. The author was able to present Janie’s journey through her unique dialect that never failed in setting the scene. This being said as throughout Janie’s life she was finally able to find herself.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston depicts the story of a firm, ambitious woman named Janie who’s freedom is endangered under the masculine nature of society. Because Janie is frequently portrayed as a trophy wife rather than a human, she begins to succumb under the negative pressures of society while deciding to fight back, which not only suggests that men thrive off the oppression of women but also demonstrates the strength women must have to better themselves through it. Throughout the book, Hurston depicts the presence of masculinity in society, while hinting at the effects it has on women. A prime example of this is seen when Janie was asked to make a speech in which Joe quickly rejected, thus leading Janie to feel “cold” and

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” is the best-known novel written by African American author Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates the story of a young woman, Janie Crawford, on her journey to find her real true love from her transition from young adult to adult. Throughout the novel readers will receive events about narrator’ s life through her flashbacks of three phases of her life while being married to three different types of men. At the beginning of the novel, Janie is returning to her hometown of Eatonville, which is located in Florida, to begin to tell her best friend Pheoby of what has happened to her over the course of her three marriages. Her first marriage was arranged by her grandmother to an older rich man but she was not happy