Their Eyes Were Watching God Pear Tree

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In this global era of evolving civilization, it is increasingly difficult to ignore the fascinating fact about love. Love is a feeling of intimacy, warmth, and attachment. Love is inevitable and it plays a vital role in human life. The aim of this essay is to critically examine the pear tree in the novel “Their eyes were watching God.” Further to this, the reason as to why one does not see any other characters chasing after love will be examined, whilst discussing who the bee to Janie’s bloom was. To add to this, the significant role of Logan, Jody, and Tea cake in influencing the love life of Janie will be examined. In order to analyze this, it is important to understand the effect of love in this novel and how it influenced Janie. In this …show more content…

The significance of the pear tree for Janie shows the view of love, nature, sexuality, and can be seen as a change within herself where a strong and barely controllable emotion should lead to a perfect marriage. The pear tree is seen being used throughout the text describing how Janie searches to find herself by finding trust, romance, understanding, and excitement. Janie is always seen spending most of her day under a pear tree in the backyard when Janie noticed a bee pollinating into a pear tree “she was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, she saw a dust- bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and lathering with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been called to observe a revelation.” (11). In Janie’s mind, this event showed a general …show more content…

Janie is seen all through the text trying to achieve her cravings for love and making affection similar to the marriage between the bee and the blossoming pear tree “ Oh to be a pear tree−any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where was the singing bee for her?” (11) She was seeking to find her singing bee. Through the course of searching for love she discovers herself in three entirely dissimilar marriages which make her idea about love more

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