Summary: Their Eyes Were Watching God By Hurston

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”, a famous quote by Frederick Douglass. This quote forms the idea that in order to grow, you must overcome obstacles. Both Hurston and Cholin wrote books that show people who overcame similar obstacles in different ways. Both of their characters were able to discover love at different times and had different opinions about what love was. Hurston’s novel takes place in the early 1900s, where slavery was still taking place in southern United States. The protagonist Janie goes through a journey of self-discovery and love. In Hurston’s book, the main character Janie describes love as wanting to marry someone one and wanting to be with them forever. Chopin’s novel takes place is set in the late nineteenth …show more content…
In chapter three of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie had been waiting to fall in love with her current husband Logan. Logan was a man that her grandmother, Nanny, had handpicked for Janie to marry. Nanny is the Janie’s grandmother, she had taken care of Janie since she was a baby. Nanny has the idea that men are too powerful and evil. So she took it upon herself to pick the “perfect husband” for Janie. She believed that if she chose Janie’s husband that there would less of a chance that Janie got hurt. Janie tried everything she could to fall in love with Logan, she waited almost a year before coming to the conclusion that love couldn’t be forced to bloom.The narrator explains, “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a women.” (Hurston, 25) This means that, during her year of living with Logan, Janie had matured enough and learned that love cannot be forced. She learned that love has to be earned and given in return, for it to be real. When the quote states that, Janie “became a women”, it is important because when you become a woman it means you have grown and gain knowledge, which makes you wiser than you were