Their Eyes Were Watching God
It is human nature to look for happiness. Some people find it in material possessions, some find it in money, but most of us find it in love. To find true love is a difficult task especially now in the times of cell phones and Jaguars. Money and power play a big role in today's society, and some people would rather have those things than a love of another human being. In some rare cases it is not even a person's decision who she (almost every time it's a woman who is being given away) will marry. Although it does not happen very often, there are still cases 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. The standing in the community means a great deal, just like Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God illustrates.
Janie, the main character in the book, was raised by her grandmother. Ever since Janie's mother ran away it was just the two of them......
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