A lovely melody
In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes were Watching God, the main character Janie paints us a picture of her interpretation of an ideal love, a pear tree. I however disagree with this interpretation. Sure pear trees are lovely and to some people may represent love, but when i think of love I think of music and how it has the power to move you, uplift you when your feeling down, how by just hearing a simple melody it can let you relive the best and worst moments of your life. In this way you can say that Janie and Tea Cake’s love was music, Janie was the musician and Tea Cake, he was her favorite song to play.
Music is a beautiful symphony of sounds and words strung together to produce one of the loveliest forms of art in the world. What better interpretation of love is their? When you look in the eyes of the girl you love it’s like her eyelashes are violin strings that play symphonies every time she blinks. Love brings the worst and best out of you. Someone once compared it to riding a bike, “About how I love you the same way I learned to ride a bike. Scared, but breathless. With no training wheels or elbow pads so my scars can tell the story of how I fell for you.” Throughout the novel Janie looks for her one true love and goes through different phases of her life and her changing views on love. Janie knows what love is, but doesn’t know where to find it. Sort of like a beginning musician, who at the start knows what kind of music they want to play, but doesn’t know how to play it. Pressured by her nanny to marry Logan Killicks, not for love but for money and security, Janie gets her first taste of this symphony called love. “Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks said it, so it must be so.” (20). This shows Janie inexperience at love. Simply because Nanny tells her so, Janie assumes that marriage is followed by love. She assumes that after she marries...