Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, there are many major issues such as racism, gender roles, love and many more. Even though racism is in the novel it isn’t the main theme of the story, the theme is more of Janie being a human being rather than just a black woman. The major issue I will be talking about, “love”. In the book Janie marries an older man to make her grandfather proud. Love isn’t just an issue in the book, it’s also an issue in the real world. Arranged marriages are still practiced in the middle east and Asia countries. (http://www.professorshouse.com/relationships/marriage-advice/articles/arranged-marriage-facts/). Women around the world are being forced to marry men they don’t love or even know. Like in the book when Janie married an older man to make her grandfather proud. Many women are forced to marry for different reasons such as money situations or even religion. Janie’s vision of true love is associated with innocence, openness, understanding and equality between lovers. Sex and marriage don’t characteristically lead to love, though …show more content…
Many people are getting married for the wrong reasons now a day, they get married because they have a child together and they think they now need to be married. (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/02/13/love-and-marriage/). In Their Eyes Were Watching God romantic love is Janie’s ultimate goal in her life. She battles against the common view of love as unimportant and lighthearted. When love is restored, it’s like a fountain of youth, having found love makes Janie feel like she’s finally accomplished her goal in life, to find love. Love plays a very important role in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes were watching God. Janie spent all her days looking for love. She thought of love just as she thought of springtime: Sunny days, bright skies, a bee pollinating pear tree blossoms. She searched far to long for this kind of