Janie And Tea Cake's Relationship

A scene that describes Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship is on page 110. During this scene, Janie and Tea Cake made their first public outing - a big town picnic. After this outing, the town begins to gossip about Janie’s newfound relationship with tea Cake in a very scandalous was.

A scene that shows Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship is on page 115. During this scene, Janie tells her good friend Pheoby that Tea Cake taught her the maiden language all over again. This means that Tea Cake taught Janie how to love again and how to open her heart. This is a very important detail to Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship because Janie’s journey throughout this entire book is to find love with someone and also within herself.

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For example, in chapter 17, Tea Cake beat Janie to prove that he still controlled her. “Before the week was over he had whupped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. being able to whip her reassured him in possession” (Hurston 148). This quote emphasizes the control aspect of Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship. While Tea Cake let's Janie have her independence, he feels the need to control her for his own jealousy issues. After Tea Cake beat Janie, he felt bad and spoiled her the next day. Janie harbored no bad feelings toward Tea Cake. Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship is also fun and full of adventure and in that sense, Tea Cake made Janie feel young and alive. The outcome of Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship is tea Cake’s death. Tea Cake died because he saved Janie’s life. Due to a hurricane that occurred in chapter 18, Janie and Tea Cake are forced to leave their home. In the process of finding safety, Janie gets thrown into water and is nearly attacked by a dog. To save her, Tea Cake fights off the dog and kills the dog, but is bit in the process of doing so. This is yet another act of kindness that Tea Cake did for janie that shower her how much