Hurston project

“Every tear you drop squeezes a cup uh blood outa mah heart.” (Hurston 15)
Love is something that is not always or usually easy to attain. It is a special bond that develops between two beings, which is can never be truly broken or forgotten. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is continually presented with love. The quote above illustrates the true meaning of love and how Janie has always had it throughout her life.
Even though it is not always simple to find love for another living being, it is still possible to attain. Once it is attained, the one who has fallen in love cannot help but to care more about that person than their own self. If that person was in dyer need of help, then the one in love would automatically drop what they are doing and advance with haste to their loved one’s rescue. They would always be there to aid their loved one in any way that they possibly can. Janie’s grandmother had developed a love this strong for Janie. She would do anything for Janie at any cost. When Janie was crying, it was if her grandmother’s heart was slowly breaking from within her. Her grandmother would feel her heart hurt so badly that it felt as if her heart had broken open, and every time Janie would cry, her heart would ache and pour out a cup’s worth of blood. This concept of love helps Hurston relay one of her many important messages to her readers.
One major message that is conveyed in this story is the theory of love. Janie lost her parents at a very young age. Her father had raped her mother and had run off. Her mother had begun to ruin her life after Janie was born. The only relative that she was left with was her grandmother. Meaning, her grandmother was the sole provider for this child and that her grandmother would have to be responsible for the upbringing of Janie. Even though her grandmother was not her true mother, Janie had viewed her of nothing less than that. With the years that they had come to bond together, they came to grow a deep and strong love for one another. Janie’s grandmother even claimed to care for Janie more than she did her own child. “Every tear you drop squeezes a cup uh blood outa mah heart.” (Hurston 15) This quote’s main purpose for being incorporated into the story was to show one of Hurston’s messages. It showed the message of love. Love is something that even still lives on until today.
Love is something that will never cease to exist between human beings. It is a strong craving that is internally buried into our souls. Every human being must feel loved and give love to another. There is no possible way to destroy this feeling from within us. Also, at times, this function of the heart cannot be controlled. If a person begins to continuously spend time with another person and has numerous times of enjoyment with them, then that person’s heart will begin to break off a piece of itself and give it to the person that it is in love with. Love is something that is sought out by a large number of people on a daily basis. When a person becomes lonely and has no one to spend their time with, then their internal self begins to seek out someone that they can give their heart out to. No matter what, the human being’s heart at all times requires that it is being loved and that it is offering its love off to another in need of it.
The quote illustrates the true meaning of love and how Janie has always had it throughout her life. Hurston makes it a point of placing the topic of love as one of her main and important messages because it is a subject that is undeniably always bound to continue living until the last day of the earth. It is a powerful subject that a reader can always enjoy, learn from, participate in, develop, and relate to. Love is truly a subject that never ceases to become old.