and both of these men think they have the right to hurt a woman who they think is misbehaving. Tea cake‚ however‚ values Janie’s personality and company. He also feels the duty of being a husband- protect her from danger‚ etc. This makes it easy for Janie to fall for Tea cake and his qualities rather than Logan and Jody qualities. Tim’s situation though is much more different. He is forced to go to war and fight with people he has never met before. He must learn to trust these men because thats all
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the book‚ the reader follows Janie Woods as she travels from one man to the next and from one town to the next in search of happiness‚ freedom‚ and love. Janie abandons her first husband and the oppressive‚ conventional life that she lives with him in order to pursue a more stimulating‚ adventurous‚ and exciting one with Jody Sparks. With his big dreams for the future and his plans to build an “all-colored” town‚ Jody seems at first to embody the very things that Janie is seeking in life‚ but he
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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the idea of women being subordinate to men is prominent. The main female characters are berated for their alleged incompetence and are subject to repression of their true selves. However‚ when the men are subjected to similar conditions‚ they prove to be much weaker than stereotypes would suggest. In both stories‚ the authors depict the ironies of conventional society to show how despite men’s
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Logan Killicks. This marriage is an arranged marriage by her grandmother in order for Janie to have a supporting and stable household‚ as her grandmothers time to pass grows nearer. Janie marries this man with no feelings of love toward him‚ being told that a person would grow to love the one they are married to. Renee Hausman refers to this in the article Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Janie‚ reared by the myth of marriage as the only route of expression and satisfaction for
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arrives to Eatonville to watch the baseball game in town. He decides stop by the Stark’s Town store where he meets the beautiful widow Mrs.Starks (Janie). At first sight Janie is immediately attracted to Tea Cake‚ even though the age difference is kinda big (twelve years) they manage to ignore it and get to know each other. The entire town finds out that Janie and Tea Cake have a thing going on and they find it disrespectful toward Joe Starks (her husband who passed away a couple months back). Her friends
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Synopsis of ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ is a female bildungsroman and it is a polyphonic novel of personal development in which the protagonist‚ Janie searches for an authentic identity‚ a quest for romance and in turn achieving self fulfillment and voice. Throughout the novel‚ Hurston highlights different themes through poetic dialect such as love‚ racism and gender inequality. The plot is structured into Janie’s four relationships with Nanny‚ Logan Killicks
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money and status‚ no matter what the emotional cost” (xvi). From early in her childhood‚ Janie strives to obey and submit to the will of her elders‚ regardless of her inner desire to find “her authentic self and real love” (Danticat ix). However‚ Nanny’s concern is that Janie will relegate herself to a life of promiscuity like her mother or‚ worse yet‚ to a life of poverty and bare subsistence unless Janie finds financial freedom through the sanctity of marriage. Nanny’s constant worry becomes the
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distinctive grammar‚ vocabulary‚ and tone mark different in order to show their individuality. Jody Starks was very hungry for power and was willing to travel to quench this hunger. As a result of his foolish power hungry mentality‚ his relationship with Janie quickly went south as he treated her very poorly. Eventually‚ this began to show when Joe says “"All you got tuh do is mind me. How come you can’t do lak Ah tell yuh?" "You sho loves to tell me whut to do‚ but Ah can’t tell you nothin’ Ah see!" "Dat’s
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not a destination but a journey. Janie quickly realizes this when she gets married to Logan. First everything was like ice-cream and cake‚ sweet and comforting. Then‚ slowly it began to melt away. The bliss was gone and reality started to set in. Logan’s true colors began to show. Janie started to realize Logan wasn’t what she wanted. This was not how she thought marriage was suppose to be. But she just waited it out. One year later‚ still nothing changed and Janie now realized her dream of marriage
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her an unique perspective on race relations‚ evident in her novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston drew on her on experiences as a feminist Afro-American female to create a story about the magical transformation of Janie‚ from a young unconfident girl to a thriving woman. Janie experiences many things that make her a compelling character who takes readers along as her companion‚ on her voyage to discover the mysteries and rewards life has to offer. Zora Neale Hurston was‚ the daughter of a Baptist
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