There Eyes Were Watching God

Love is metaphorically described as, "a flower of life". Love is the most valuable sense that humans have as we can see the history of mankind began from Adam and Eve's love. In this sense, a life without love, would be valueless. Zora Neale Hurston stresses this necessity of love in a life as she looks back upon Janie's life in the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God".

It is human nature to look for happiness and love. Some people find it in material possessions, some find it in money, but most find it in love. Finding true love is a difficult task at times, especially in the 21st Century where high tech devices, expensive cars, and million dollar houses seem to cloud the minds of high aspirations. Money and power play a big role in society, and some people would rather have these things than the love of another. In some rare cases it is not even a person's decision to whom she will marry. Although it does not happen very often, there are still causes where a woman is being married off to a man by an arrangement made by her parents, to insure stability and security of that woman.

Growing up in West Florida with her ex-slave grandmother, Janie spends the majority of the hot summer days underneath a pear tree in her grandmother's backyard. It is on this one particular summer afternoon, at the ripe age of sixteen, that Janie experiences a moment of ??????????? Janie "saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom." So this was a marriage? Janie believes that she would one day find someone that she would be able to depend on for survival. Janie expects that her marriage/love will resemble the union that the flower shares with the bee. The flower relies on the bee for pollination and the perpetuation of its species, while the bee relies on the flower for food