Summer Blog post 2
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 example, Janie Crawford was married three times to three different men. Her relationship with each man was completely different from the last.
With Logan, the audience does not get to experience a lot of his emotions and thoughts, he is more of a one-dimensional supporting character to Janie. He helps shape who she turns out to be but he is not given a major section in the book. Joe Starks is the first man that Janie really loves and she stays with him for almost 10 years before she realizes that he is not the same man she fell in love with. After he hit her, their relationship took an enormous turn with it ending by him wishing death upon her. This love taught Janie to grow.
Almost a year later, Janie meets another "shore", TeaCake. This shore shows her what it is like to live and to have fun. TeaCake helps Janie find herself without really realizing it.
All of the "shores" Janie came across in her time, not one was the same. Each one taught her a different lesson and contributed to her finding out how to live, which was her intended goal since the beginning.
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 example, Janie Crawford was married three times to three different men. Her relationship with each man was completely different from the last.
With Logan, the audience does not get to experience a lot of his emotions and thoughts, he is more of a one-dimensional supporting character to Janie. He helps shape who she turns out to be but he is not given a major section in the book. Joe Starks is the first man that Janie really loves and she stays with him for almost 10 years before she realizes that he is not the same man she fell in love with. After he hit her, their relationship took an enormous turn with it ending by him wishing death upon her. This love taught Janie to grow.
Almost a year later, Janie meets another "shore", TeaCake. This shore shows her what it is like to live and to have fun. TeaCake helps Janie find herself without really realizing it.
All of the "shores" Janie came across in her time, not one was the same. Each one taught her a different lesson and contributed to her finding out how to live, which was her intended goal since the beginning.
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