Love and Friendship in Their Eyes Were Watching God and...

The way the author characterizes the main characters in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Tim OBriens The Things They Carried shows how people in any situation find friendship and love. Many of the characters in Their Eyes Were Watching God are defined by their thoughts and opinions on women, especially Janie’s three husbands. Logan and Jody don’t consider women to be thinking or feeling humans, and both of these men think they have the right to hurt a woman who they think is misbehaving. Tea cake, however, values Janie’s personality and company. He also feels the duty of being a husband- protect her from danger, etc. This makes it easy for Janie to fall for Tea cake and his qualities rather than Logan and Jody†¦show more content†¦In him she definitely found change and chance, but still not the love she was looking for. What Jody had for Janie was more of a lust than a love. He was very protective of her and didnt want anyone else to see in her what he saw. He gave her lots of things such as money, but love was not one of them. Unfortunately Jody dies making Janie move on to Tea cake. Tea cake is everything Janie ever wanted. Tea Cake let her be herself and he loved her just the way she was. He encouraged her to be what she wanted to be to follow her dreams, her thoughts, and her aspirations. A big difference between Tea cake and Janie is their age difference, but Tea Cake believes they can overcome that difference through love. â€Å"Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do with convenience but it ain’t got nothin tuh do wid love† (105). Tea Cake does not care about social prescriptions. As long as love exists between them, their ages do not matter. Society should not run a love life. True love comes within the heart and the feelings you get from someone and Tea Cake proves that with Janie. Tim is a young boy forced to go to war with all hopes of returning home. 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