Overcoming Obstacles In Destino And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Humans face struggles of different magnitudes and art focuses on a wide range of them. Whether large or small, people must deal with these problems in many ways; however, the first step in overcoming these problems is realizing who they - the people - are as individuals, as demonstrated in the film Destino and the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. In the short film Destino, the female character spends her life searching for love. In the beginning of the film, she stares longingly at a statue of a man - who later comes to life; he is the same man whom she chases throughout the film. She originally loves another person whom she lost, which is represented when the face of a different statue melts away when she tries to kiss it. Then she begins to overcome the loss when she looks for love in the other man, and faces obstacles to be with him. As their love grows, more barriers come between the two, such as the ground crumbling and walls erecting. The female character’s search for love is akin to Janie Crawford’s in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is a woman who experiences two unsuccessful marriages and dreams for a passionate love, which she finds later in the novel with a man named Tea Cake. Both of Janie’s past husbands, Logan and Joe, treated her poorly. After Joe’s death, Janie does not …show more content…
In the film Destino and the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, both of the main characters experience obstacles related to love and freedom; however, they can solve their problems by learning about who they are. Trials are something universally faced, and often with many parallels as seen with Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God and the woman in Destino, but there is often only one path towards fixing them. It may be daunting at first, but both stories prove that no matter what obstacles form, once a person uncovers who they are, they will be able to successfully overcome anything they