Natasha's Blogs

What does Zora Neale Hurston mean in the quote, "Love is lak de sea. It's a movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore"? With this quote, the author,  Zora Neale Hurston, is telling the readers that love is never the same. In telling the audience that "love is a moving thing", she compares it to how the ocean is a constantly moving body of water. Humans are bodies of water too, (but only around 60%, the rest is organs and all that). Hurston goes on to say, "it takes its shape from de shore it meets". With this, she is telling the audience that love finds its shape in the people it meets. Again, speaking figuratively, love does not literally meet the shore or the people, (personification), but no love is the same between two people. All people in love have their 'cracks in the sand', and 'sunny days', but everyone experiences it differently. To give an exampl...

A memoir: The summer of 2019 was the most terrific summer I had ever had. You see, it was my first time crossing the Atlantic ocean, and after around 20 hours of travelling, I had arrived in Montréal, Canada with my best friend. Although we only had four days in Montréal to soak up as much of the city as possible, we were planning on doing everything available. Our first full day we decided to do some shopping on St. Catherines Street. The street is 11.2 km long and has a profuse amount of stores along it. One of the first stores we had gone into was Steve Madden. Now, I have an enormous weak spot when it comes to shoes, and lucky for me, they had a 50% off sale going on. We decided to look around and after about 7 minutes of looking, I laid my eyes on the most magnificent, gorgeous, out-of-this-world pair of sandals. I'm not usually one to wear sandals, (sneakers are more my type of thing), but you have to understand, these were beyond Ms. Universe beautiful. Since I had sav...