"Their eyes where watching God"

Zora Neale Hurston poured her story out into the book "Their eyes were watching God". As I came to the end of the book, I realized how dynamic her writing was. She wrote with such personification and idiom. the relationships that she created in the story was broken down in stages in her life and how she compared them to natures cycles. In each relationship she encountered someone was telling her what to do, starting with her grandmother forcing her to marry a man she didn't want to marry, Logan Killicks, her first husband who had spoiled her for so long and complained when she didn't want to help him. She struggled with learning to love Logan although he provided a lot for her. In her description she felt unhappy, she wanted to experience real love. Once she got fed up, she ran off with her 2nd husband Joe Starks. He was very dominate over her. He made her feel low and kept her quiet. She felt trapped. He made her his possession, life as his wife wasn't as fun as she thought it would be. But she stuck by his side until he died, but on his death bed she explained to him what he did to her, and how she didn't think their love would have turned out to be so materialistic,reserved and controlled. She then met a young man few months after Joe's death. Tea Cake. Tea Cake provided her with a life she never knew. They loved each other to their very souls. She experienced more things with Tea Cake then her other husbands but she enjoyed every second. In a turmoil part of the book she says to tea cake "Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. and ah loves yuh and feel glad".(pg 180) the love she had for tea cake was beyond any love she experience in prior things...and when he died she learned to appreciate what life had to offer and that all the things she had been through was not in vain. And that things had occurred for reasons that only God could explain. She realized that all you can do is watch God, and see what he has planned for you.