The poet Edgar Allen Poe once said, "I am above the weakness of trying to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between disaster and atrocity." Poe means that one must not give in to the pressures of the world that oppresses every person. Enduring the harshness people inflict on others, people who can't seem to find an anchor in life. Janie battles the constant tugs of everyday life and the people who try to make her something she's not. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston shows that Janie is positively affected by the deaths of her loved ones because each death teaches Janie something new that helps her get back on her feet and give back to the world. We are watching God, Janie is positively affected by the death of Nanny, Janie's late grandmother; and Joe and Tea Cake, Janie's late husbands, because as the road progresses, Janie learns something new that makes her stronger in every task she faces and every death she encounters. The narrator says: "She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity. She was preparing for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she they should find them and they will find it" (89). This shows that the nanny doesn't care if Janie finds love or not, because the nanny just wants Janie to have someone to take care of her when she dies. When the nanny dies, Janie sees that the nanny is not there to watch her carefully, so Janie does what she has dreamed of all her life, finding love. In this story, Zora Neale Hurston shows that Janie was positively affected by the nanny's death because Janie now has the ability to live her love life the way she wanted... middle of paper... made him millions of pieces, but it continued to glow and hum. So they reduced it to nothing but sparks, but every little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each of them with mud. ....Like all the other falling mudballs, Janie had tried to show her shine" (90). Every time Janie tries to show who she really is, someone new enters her life and catches that glimmer of freedom and sovereignty. away from her. Their eyes watched God, Janie is positively affected by the death of her loved ones because each death teaches Janie something new that helps her get back on her feet you have to be proud of who you are and who you are are. Furthermore, one must always stand up for what they believe. Works Cited Hurston, Zora N. Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Print.