Love in the Horizon Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, portrays life as a search for love, freedom, and individual identity. In this novel, we see the characters mature emotionally through their many obstacles in life. People spend their whole lives looking for someone to love, when they must first learn to love themselves. <Tab/>If different variables can influence someone, then clothing is definitely one of …showed first 75 words of 1957 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1957 total…and he loves her. Despite all of the hardships life has given her, Janie prevails with a sense of self-empowerment, and the knowledge that she has lived, and loved, life to the fullest. Janie's philosophy is, as she tells Pheoby, "Love is lak de sea. It's ugh moving' thing, but still and all, it takes shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore" (191), is one all of us can live by.