As Janie returns to the town the townspeople criticize her attire and her previous love life and speculate what had happened to her lover. The town seems to be resentful about her return and try to pinpoint the reason of her return. This gives me the first look at how the townspeople seem to be zealous of her past and truly are critical of the choices she makes. This piece of symbolism shows aspects of Janie’s life that have had positive effects and negative affects on her life and her life choices
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Tribulations of Janie Crawford Janie Crawford would be considered a woman who has been through many trials and tribulations in her young life. She is a woman of strength‚ confidence and experience with all of the many things she has gone through in her life‚ such a death. She has had three different husbands‚ and her second husband Jody Starks becomes very ill and dies. Finally‚ there is Tea Cake‚ whom she deeply cares for‚ but treats her poorly in such a way as to control Janie. She is used to
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situations; for example when i was playing football during gym i made a strategic plan that got my team through the whole game. In that moment i showed tremendous intelligent strength. Two characters Uncle Basil from “You can’t take it with you” and Janie from the book Wake they are both very intelligent because they are good thinkers and are good at coming up with plans. First of the characters is Uncle basil by making people question his intelligence because he is secretly smart. “Uncle Basil lives
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Furthermore‚ after her relationship with Logan‚ Joe makes his way into Janie’s life. In Janie’s eyes he is a step above Logan‚ personality wise. Besides‚ Janie thought that Joe can give change and chance for her as the pear tree symbolized. Immediately‚ Joe convinces Janie that he would be a guide into realizing what her dreams in life are. Eventually‚ Janie comes to show that Joe is not the right one for her based on his power as the mayor. For instance‚ he says "You ain’t never knowed what it was to be
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As the years passed‚ Ms. Pease Windy Boy divorced‚ and remarried taking the name Pretty on Top. Janine Pease worked to expand Big Horn College applying for grants‚ and seeking funding from every source in order to expand the college and provide more services to the students. Her father Benjamin‚ often spoke of how Chief Plenty Coups would tell the Crow people that with education you will be the white man equal. Over the next decade the college expanded to more than 300 full time students and a staff
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On September 15‚ 1945‚ in Augusta‚ Georgia‚ Jessye Mae Norman was born. Her parents were Silas Norman and Janie King-Norman. Silas was her father and Janie was her mother. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was an insurance salesman. She had five other siblings who were all musicians but not professional. Her mother‚ Janie‚ and her grandmother were both pianist. Her father‚ Silas‚ was a singer in a choir. Like all great musicians start‚ Jessye began playing the piano at age 2! For
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Hester Prynne as a Heroine Volner 1 What makes a hero? Some may say saving lives‚ or stopping evil‚ but in literature‚ these are not the only requirements for the title of “hero.” It is monstrously debated amongst literary scholars whether or not Hester Prynne of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a true heroine or not. She displays heroic qualities‚ but many
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is : Identity. The Face on the Milk Carton is a book about a 15 year-old high school student in Connecticut‚ Janie Johnson. One day at lunch she looks at the missing child picture on her friend’s milk carton and recognizes the girl in the picture – it’s her. The milk carton says the girl‚ Jennie Spring‚ was kidnapped from a shopping mall in New Jersey twelve years ago. That afternoon‚ Janie begins to have flashbacks of a house and a family and herself as a little girl. Her memory from the day of the
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who ask for it and don’t demand it. I think that in the book Hester Prynne is forgiven and Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are not forgiven. I think that because Hester was married to Chillingsworth but while he was gone for a couple of years Hester got with Dimmesdale. Hester got pregnant with her little baby Pearl. Chillingworth found out and want revenge right away. He told Hester not to tell anyone about his real identity. Hester is forgiven because now she has to wear a letter A on her chest
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In the book The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne is convicted of adultery and ordered to wear the scarlet letter "A" on her chest as a permanent sign of her sin. Hester is sentenced to never take off this badge of shame‚ and doesn’t until chapter thirteen. As the novel proceeds‚ Hawthorne presents several questions that are left unanswered. How does the nature of the letter "A" seem to change? What role of does Hester’s own response to her situation play in changing the meaning of the letter "A"? How
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