When Janie is sixteen years old, her grandmother marries her off to a farmer, by the name of Logan Killicks. Janie’s grandmot

It is not until one afternoon in the store that she meets a lofty, yet handsome young man who went, strangely enough, by the name of Tea Cake. He said, “Good evenin’, Mis’ Starks,” with a sly grin as if they had a good joke together” (Hurston 94). Unlike Joe, Tea Cake’s self confidence is not combined with ambition, and he can openly express his love for Janie. Although Janie is cautious of his intentions and their age difference, Tea Cake continues to seek her out. “But it was no place to show her fear there in the darkness between the house and the store (Hurston 99). He accepts Janie for who she is unconditionally and always encourages her to live for herself. He teaches her to play checkers and generally makes her feel like a regular person with a playful heart. Tea Cake seems to be able to give Janie her dream of love that Joe could never understand. Janie and Tea Cake leave Eatonville to get married. Janie is finally happy. Discovering the “two things everybody’s got to do fuh themselves,” is Janie’s personal victory”. Living with Tea Cake in the muck with the migrant workers, Janie is able to discover herself, what she can do, and how fulfilling true love is. Trouble arrives when one of Janie’s questionable friends wants to hook her up with her brother. Though Janie does not intend to do so, Tea Cake beats her to show the world who is boss. Janie is hurt, but she remains silent about the beating. When a hurricane threatens “the muck”, Tea Cake refuses to leave. Then, the dam of a nearby lake collapses, and the couple runs for their lives. During their exhausting escape, Janie is swept into a deep stream of moving water and tries to save herself by holding onto a cow that is swimming the current. Unfortunately, the cow has a mad dog on its back. The dog threatens to attack Janie and bites Tea Cake when he comes to her rescue. After surviving the storm, Janie and Tea Cake stay in Palm Beach so he can recover. Before he is well, he decides they should go back to the muck. There he gets progressively sicker. Tea Cake has rabies and will probably not survive. The next day, however, Tea Cake becomes paranoid and attacks Janie with a pistol. She knows that he does not know what he is doing and is in terrible pain. Janie shoots him and holds him against her breast as he dies. An all-white jury and judge put Janie on trial for murder. She is acquitted and set free. Though her relationship with Tea Cake is cut short by tragedy, Janie takes away a feeling that she struggles for her entire life. Janie is now able to live her life without being someone that other people create. With her new found identity, Janie is able to believe in herself more than she has ever been able to do in the past.

her, Nanny Crawford, feels that Janie should marry a man that can provide her with protection, financial security, and respectability. Nanny do

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