their eyes were watching god,

Passage: p.11, “After a while…to be made.” In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston, Janie seeks answers to questions posed by life by looking at nature. This search is necessitated because Janie never had any proper guidance from parents. Janie grew up with no one to follow or to guide her through the early stages of adolescence, and because of this she has to teach herself, or draw influence from her world …

…one to answer them for her. The only thing that seems to present agreeable solutions is nature. Janie is forced to take these examples as models for her own answers, and in doing so she loses sight of the real world and the more down-to-earth notions of love. She tries to find natural love through a number of ways in life, but she never can achieve the ideal, the bond presented to her by nature.