Janie

The novel presents a story of an African American woman, Janie Crawford. It shows her struggle in which she fights for acceptance and a sense of security. Throughout the novel, her growth into womanhood is presented. At the beginning, Janie is depicted as a shy and withdrawn woman who is not inclined to speak about her emotions and feelings. Her voice is often stifled, and, as a result, she remains unheard and unnoticed. She feels that her community ignores her. She could not define herself as a

Joe is a very wealthy, smart, successful businessman that is jealous of Janie, unlike Tea Cake who has full trust in her. Janie begins to realize how much power Joe has after becoming mayor. “Janie soon began to feel the impact of awe and envy against her sensibilities” (46). Early in their marriage, Janie can already see how controlling Joe is going to be over her. It’s not that he doesn’t love her, but he is just simply jealous. He cannot stand for the spotlight to be on anybody but himself. Janie’s

Fitzgerald and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main characters, Gatsby and Janie, respectively, are in search of their soulmates that they believe represent their idea of true love. They both strive to find their soulmates, though the restrictive societies they live in make it difficult for them to find what they are looking for in love. Another similarity between Gatsby and Janie is that they were willing to do almost anything to find true love. But in the end, no matter how

In this novel, Janie do go through “silence” in her marriage with Jody (Major Starks) the man she left when she was married to Logan, he first husband. In the “silence” Janie takes with Jody there were many things that Jody did to Janie. Jody was the boss of Janie and told her what and what not to do. I will give details on how it all started from the beginning of the marriage to the end of it all together. In the beginning, Janie meet Jody as she spies a good-looking, sharply dressed stranger ambling

passage, Janie and Joe had recently had a fight, but this fight was different because Janie tried to fight back, not physically, but verbally. The narrator explains how Janie feels and acts towards her husband. This fight she finally fought back with her tongue and voices how she feels. A major theme in the in the novel is silence. The reoccurrence of the tongue symbol in this passage strengthens the author’s point of silence and how it is crippling to Janie. This passage clearly shows how Janie tries

and finding a voice. The first theme of love is portrayed throughout the entire novel. Janie falls in love with many guys, and is also forced to love a man. The high point of this theme can be seen at the ending of the novel when Janie kills Tea Cake, the narrator says, “Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service” (184). While Janie kills Tea Cake, she did it to protect herself, and because she wanted to put him out of

Logan killicks the older man that was going with janie. He was a wealthy old man he had over 60 acres of land but i can not see myself relate toward logan the way he was old and mean to his lady. Also the way he talked to janie and he was a woman beater and i can’t relate towards that,reason being is he did many things or handled things wrong the only thing i can see myself honestly being like logan is how he owned the shop and the way i can relate to that is i can see myself owning a business

SCHOLARS FEATURED IN MY AREA OF CONCENTRATION Scholar 1 Dr. Janine Remilliard “Is an Associate Professor and a primary faculty in the Teacher Education program, and the Teaching, Learning and Leadership Division, in Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded an Early Career research grant from the National Science Foundation to support her project”. Learning to Teach Mathematics in Urban Classrooms and is involved in many projects, such as directing a number

guardian Nanny’s decision, she says, “Ah wants things sweet wid my marriage…” (Hurston 24). Janie hesitantly expresses her true feelings about her current relationship to Nanny, and her guardian tells her that love isn’t important in the relationship. Nanny clearly wants Janie to have wealth and status in the society, something that Nanny never had for herself. But even after Nanny passed away months later, Janie is doubtful if she will ever get his love. And as she leaves Logan for Joe hoping for a

Janie, the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is often identified as a feminist character. While she is certainly an independent woman who believes in the equality of the sexes, Janie does not lead a typically feminist existence through the novel. Largely because of her relationships with the three key men in her life, Janie is often beaten down, ignored, silenced, and even physically abused. These episodes of disempowerment are what strengthen Janie’s feminist identity. Paradoxically,