The American Dream are achieved by white characters and standards that control land; unlike Janie’s dreams were to have more of facial features and a luxurious lifestyle. Janie recalls a story in her past and says that since she was raised as the only darker person with whites‚ Janie was used to white faces. “So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out except a real dark little girl…but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me” (Hurston 9). The African American
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something.” This quote is significant because it epitomizes the struggle of a woman to reach self-actualization. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston juxtaposes opposing places to emphasize the experience gained by the novel’s protagonist‚ Janie‚ in each respective location‚ and to emphasize the effect of that environment on Janie’s journey to attain her dreams. Through this comparison‚ the author explores the idea of living and experiencing life as a means of self-discovery. Moreover‚ Hurston
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via Janie’s influences and her quest to find love. The character that heavily influences Janie when growing up is Nanny. Nanny still has the mindset of a slave so her views are much different than what Janie would see. She wants Janie to have a better life than she did‚ so she arranges the marriage with Logan. She
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Janie’s pursuit of happiness. Janie is described as a child of nature. The spiritual power of nature has a tremendous affect on the development of her character. Hurston uses this metaphor to symbolize Janie’s eagerness to find love. Though as a child she craved a conventional romance‚ nature guides her to her one true love. Before meeting the man of her dreams‚ Janie experiences many failed relationships that highlight the changes in her desires. Throughout the novel‚ Janie is influenced by natural forces
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In the novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie’s three husbands treat Janie physically and emotionally different‚ but their work ethics are the same. Janie’s first husband Logan Killicks treats Janie emotionally similar to the way Joe Starks treated Janie and Tea-Cake treated Janie different emotionally compared to Logan and Joe. But when it came to pleasing Janie‚ Jody and Tea Cake were very similar. These three men change the course of Janie’s life and impact the decisions
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novel is Janie and we are taken through her a journey of her life‚ and along the way we meet three different men that all play a vital part in her life‚ Logan Killicks‚ Joe ‘Jody’ Starks‚ and Vergible ‘Tea Cake’ Woods. Each of these men represent a time in her life‚ in which there names Janie is married off to Logan Killicks when she is sixteen by her grandmother. Janie has just had her dreams killed by her grandmother. “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree‚ but Janie didn ’t
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character‚ Janie walking in to town looking distraught and exhausted. Janie’s image is symbolic of the idea that she does not have a voice in the community‚ and is tired of fighting for her right to have a say. Janie then began to tell her story. Janie’s grandmother‚ Nanny married Janie to a much older man for security and a fruitful life. Janie was very resistant to this marriage‚ but it happened in the end depicting the absence of her voice in her own life. Janie married a second
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death of Tea Cake as well as the actions of Janie to cope with the return to Eatonville‚ with a dialect usage to present the narration. The ending well-suits the beginning of Janie’s biography as the beginning depicts the start of life without her husband‚ Tea Cake. When Janie’s life reaches an ending with Tea Cake‚ the dogmatic return to Eatonville portrays the incorrect assumption of those who doubted the relationship of Janie and Tea Cake. By returning‚ Janie is able to prove Tea Cakes love for her
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she is tricked in to the illusion of love by her nanny. “Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him‚ and‚ and Ah don’t Maybe if somebody was to tell me how‚ Ah could do it” (pg. 23). Jamie realizes that nanny portrayed love as money and respect‚ but Janie wanted both emotional and physical love in which Logan couldn’t provide. Jamie starts meeting a man named Joe Starks who she is an essential alteration in her loveless marriage. “ Every day after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across
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The search for one’s identity is as poignant for the fictional character Janie as it was for former slave Frederick Douglass. Douglass used education to form an independent identity‚ which would separate him from the white slave masters. In contrast‚ Janie attempts to construct a dependent identity through marriage to each of her three husbands. With the death of her final husband Tea Cake‚ she plants the seeds he left behind‚ symbolically proving that she has grown as the seeds will grow and she
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