Their Eyes Were Watching God Argumentative Essay
True love can be defined as a strong and lasting affection - a happy, passionate and fulfilling relationship, which after a long time, the people are still passionate and care deeply for each other; to love unconditionally. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, readers follow the point of view of Janie Crawford in the form of a flashback - starting from her childhood and going through her three marriages. The book begins with Janie telling her story to her best friend Pheoby Watson and ends with her reflecting on everything that has happened. Perhaps Janie Crawford did not achieve true love with Logan Killicks or Joe Starks, but she did with and after Tea Cake, which changed her by helping her find self-love, what kind of person she was, and who she wanted to be. Although Janie did not love Killicks, she still was able to develop her quest and start to realize what did not make her happy and what she might want. After she gets married off to Logan Killicks, was when Janie began to discover the building blocks that would later form the foundations of who she was. “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, …show more content…
In her marriage to Killicks, she formed the foundation of herself. With Starks she experienced an oppressive relationship in which she found love, and discovered what kind of person she needed to be. Finally, Tea Cake gave her true love for another and for herself; Janie found that she did not need others to make her happy, only her. In the world today many people have more trouble not society but within themselves. Lack of self-love today could also be perceived as a mental health issue because of what damage it can do. If we were to break through barriers and reach our “horizon” anyone could be able to achieve
True love can be defined as a strong and lasting affection - a happy, passionate and fulfilling relationship, which after a long time, the people are still passionate and care deeply for each other; to love unconditionally. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, readers follow the point of view of Janie Crawford in the form of a flashback - starting from her childhood and going through her three marriages. The book begins with Janie telling her story to her best friend Pheoby Watson and ends with her reflecting on everything that has happened. Perhaps Janie Crawford did not achieve true love with Logan Killicks or Joe Starks, but she did with and after Tea Cake, which changed her by helping her find self-love, what kind of person she was, and who she wanted to be. Although Janie did not love Killicks, she still was able to develop her quest and start to realize what did not make her happy and what she might want. After she gets married off to Logan Killicks, was when Janie began to discover the building blocks that would later form the foundations of who she was. “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, …show more content…
In her marriage to Killicks, she formed the foundation of herself. With Starks she experienced an oppressive relationship in which she found love, and discovered what kind of person she needed to be. Finally, Tea Cake gave her true love for another and for herself; Janie found that she did not need others to make her happy, only her. In the world today many people have more trouble not society but within themselves. Lack of self-love today could also be perceived as a mental health issue because of what damage it can do. If we were to break through barriers and reach our “horizon” anyone could be able to achieve