Love in Their Eyes Were Watching God :: Their Eyes Were Watching God Essays

Love in Their Eyes Were Watching God          Love plays a genuinely important role in Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyeswere watching God.  Janie spent her days looking for love.  She thought oflove just as she thought of the elements of springtime  festive days, brightskies, a bee pollinating pear tree blossoms.  She searched far and wide forthis kind of perfect love.         Logan Killicks couldnt give this kind of love to Janie.  He maynot devour loved her at all.  To him, Janie was just another working set ofhands.  He treated her almost like another man.  He was inconsiderate ofher feelings, her hopes, her aspirations.  He probably didnt know thecolor of her eyes.  Janie was worked hard by Logan.  He made her do allsorts of things that only men should have to have done.  He was even freeingto make her plow the fields-a job that requires a considerable amount ofstren gth  strength that Janie didnt have.  Janie complained that nothingbeautiful was ever said.  She had no love with Logan Killicks.  That is whyshe left field him for a man that showed much potential to give the kind of loveshe was looking for.         The whistling man that Janie ran away with was Jody Starks.  WithJody, Janie thought that she would forever have height dust and springtimesprinkled over everything.  She thought shed have a bee for her bloom.She didnt exactly find this in Jody though.  In him she definitely foundchange and chance, but hush not the love she was looking for.  What Jodyhad for Janie was more of a lust than a love.  He was very protective ofher and didnt want anyone else to see in her what he saw.  He gave Janiemany things including lots of money, but he couldnt give her love.  Thelittle love that was there eventually died.  So did Jody.       &nbs p Finally, Janie met up with Tea Cake.  The moved together to the manure in the Florida Everglades and lived in Tea Cakes Shanty.  They spenteach new day together.  They laughed together, fished and hunted together,talked together, and spent time with friends together.  These were allthings that were missing from her previous relationships.  They had madeher to be somebody that she wasnt.  Tea Cake let her be herself.  He lovedher just the way she was.  He encouraged her to be what she wanted to be,to follow her dreams, her thoughts, her aspirations.  Janie had at lastfound her bee.  Tea Cake was the perfect bee for her bloom.