"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

"He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.... So much of life in its meshes. She called in her soul to come and see." Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is an epic story of a young girl learning how to live and to discover an identity, not through talk but through action. Janie could not be told what life was like by anyone; she had to …

…minute. And when Janie returned home she was at peace, having found her identity and knowing what it meant to "live and love." Hurston's message was for all of us to not be trapped or reeled in to a life because of the needs or wants of another, and especially not because of talk, but to live life for ourselves. Reference: Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York, New York: Perennial Classics (1998).