"He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.... So much of life in its meshes. She called in her soul to come and see." Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is an epic story of a young girl learning how to live and to discover an identity, not through talk but through action. Janie could not be told what life was like by anyone; she had to go out and find out for herself, and when she did, she brought back a "fish-net" of her life and its memories.
Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks was not what Janie had really wanted. After previousl…
