Part one of term paper
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a novel about a Southern black woman and her experiences through life. Janie, the main character, is forced at a young age by her grandmother, into an arranged marriage with a man named Logan. Janie is told to learn to love Logan, but the love never comes for Logan in Janie’s heart ...

Part two of term paper
... a wonderful, loving, happy marriage. Janie, through youth and lack of empowerment, is mislead to believe other people’s definitions of love and marriage until she is strong enough to find a relationship on her own which satisfies her personal definitions of love and marriage. Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, leads her to believe that love comes after marriage though love is secondary to the security marriage provides. Nanny feels marriage was simply for security and to start a fa ...