... her hair, her source of freedom and character. Janie eventually decides to live the life she has always wanted to live, and makes plans to marry Tea Cake, sell the store, and move out of town, all to the town's horror. Although no one is used to seeing Janie in this light, she strongly ... to strange new places like the Everglades. It is here in the Everglades that Janie would remain for the rest of her marriage with Tea Cake, agreeing to live off Tea Cake's money and plans, through thick and thin. This time represents happiness as well, because the reader can finally see Janie satisfied ...

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... and she finds it by searching for the right man to confine into. Janie does not find true happiness and fulfillment until she marries Tea Cake and experiences his love and respect. Tea Cake is Janie's true love. He wins Janie's heart with his carefree, fun-loving nature. She adores his energy and willingness to make her ... glad if was, 'cause then Ah might do somethin' tuh please yuh. But lak it is"(Ch.11). One of the reasons that Janie loves Tea Cake so much is that he is open with her, admitting his fear when he sees her angry and stating his strength of character to do anything t...

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... 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 ... 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 ... as ...

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... marriage from a different point of view; "A marriage needs love". With this new point of view toward marriage, she meets a man, Tea Cake and falls in love. Surely, her third marriage with Tea Cake is full of flowers since it contains love. " "Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection. Ah ain't ... just shows him an indifferent smile. Starks's crooked manner of expressing love does somehow bring a rose into her marriage life, however, with thorns. "But, Janie, Tea Cake, whilst he ain't no jail-bird, he ain't got uh dime tuh cry. Ain't you skeered he's jus after yo"...

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... life away from Eatonville, mostly affected by the three men she married during the time away. Each of the men, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks and Tea Cake, are all different in personality and the way they each treat Janie. Each of the men has also helped or hindered, in some cases, the growth ... and hold her back, but helps to bring life into the marriage. Tea Cake is a positive force, serving to encourage the growth of Janie's personality. Although Tea Cake is fundamental in her growth, he is not requisite to her life. Tea Cake ends up getting bit by a rabid dog while trying to escape t...

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... Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford encounters three marriages. One with a man named Logan Hillicks, a second with a man named Joe Starks, and another with a man named Tea Cake. Janie goes through different hardships between each marriage, and learns through each experience. Janie's relationship with Logan Hillicks was ugly and dull. What led Janie to Logan was that ... wins Janie's heart because he is so fun, loving, and nothing like her other husbands. Janie enjoys her freedom with Tea Cake, she is able to speak and do things freely. He encourages Janie, and makes her feel good about hersel...

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... . Jody's death sets her free: "Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life." At this point, Janie grasps her identity back. Meeting Tea Cake is the best thing that ever happened to Janie. He encourages her to know herself and to let everyone around her see exactly who she is. Unlike Jody ... , Tea Cake wants Janie to speak her mind. When they argue over whether Tea Cake really wants to take Janie to the picnic or not, he tells her to have the nerve to say what she ... opinions. She has learned what makes her happy and what she wants. This is Janie's first step toward bei...

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... around her son. She feels embarrassed because she doesn't think she acts like a normal mother. Laura attempts to bake a cake for her husband's birthday. However, she is not happy with the way the cake turns out. Laura appears unsure of how to make a cake and this could possibly add to her feelings of inadequacy both as a mother and husband. She seems to think ... that everyone will love it. After her friend Kitty has left, Laura loses the battle between herself and her feelings. Inadequacy gets the better of her and she drops the cake into the bin and prepares to begin over again. She l...

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... task. She went through a series of tough tests and road bumps. Those steps were: escaping from nanny, the Killicks marriage, the Starks marriage, and the Tea Cake marriage. When Janie was growing up she lived with her Grandmother, or "nanny." Nanny truly cared about Janie and she wanted the best for her, but she didn ... 20 years! After two sour marriages it seemed as if she was doomed. That is until Tea Cake came along. Tea Cake gave something to Janie that her two previous marriages hadn't, love. He genuinely cared about her. Tea Cake wasn't a rich guy, but that didn't matter to Janie....

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... between lovers, and she wishes to be a pear tree. The image suggests a wholeness, which Janie finds only in the third marriage and relationship to Tea Cake. Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks was mostly due to her grandmother's plans. Janie is forced to marry a man who she cannot love and who ... a real understanding and affection for Janie. He doesn't try to force Janie to be anything other than herself, and he treats her with respect. Tea Cake allows Janie to turn things around. When she says she wants to work in the fields beside him, he welcomes her company. In turn, she gladly...

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... happiness is to keep going until you find it. She finally finds this when she travels a little farther and meets the one and only, Tea Cake. Janie's true love is indeed Mr. Tea Cake Woods. Janie falls for him because of his carefree and loving nature. She loves the fact that Tea ... Cake tries so hard to make her his equal. Tea Cake is immediately seen differently when he teaches Janie how to play checkers because it shows that he believes Janie is smart enough to comprehend ... it and that she is worth more than just a trophy wife, unlike Logan and Joe. Tea Cake would listen and expres...

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... singing, and throwning grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and then she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp." Tea Cake and Janie obviously shared a special love between them as their relationship grew. The things he did for her made her feel ... unbelievable. They did things she had never even thought of. Tea Cake took her places she had never been. "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new." Janie went to many new places and ... Logan or stayed in Eatonville with Joe. She would've j...

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... singing, and throwning grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and then she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp." Tea Cake and Janie obviously shared a special love between them as their relationship grew. The things he did for her made her feel ... unbelievable. They did things she had never even thought of. Tea Cake took her places she had never been. "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new." Janie went to many new places and ... Logan or stayed in Eatonville with Joe. She would've j...

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... wants because Joe does not listen to her and makes her work in the store. Soon, however, Joe falls ill and dies. Another man, Tea Cake, begins to come around Janie after Joe's death. Tea Cake falls in love with Janie for the person she is and not the money she earns while she is with Joe. Janie loves Tea ... Cake for the compassion and respect he shows her, so the two marry and move south to the Everglades. The two live happily together by earning the money ... the midst of the hurricane, they pray and keep "their eyes watching God." Tea Cake saves Janie from a rabid-dog during the hur...

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... with homes that resemble shacks, and not much else. After Jody dies Janie commits to change once more by selling the store and running off with Tea Cake and leaving everything else as it is. When Janie and Jody move to Eatonville Joe quickly becomes a leader amongst the town and establishes his dominance from the ... on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom". Janie is warned by her friends to be cautious of Tea Cake because he is considerably younger than she is and is considered to be a wild card, however Janie ignores everyone's warning and continues on ...

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... so she wouldn't be alone, but she knew she had made another bad decision. She was a caged bird. When Joe died she said she was done with guys. Then Tea Cake came along a few weeks later. Tea Cake walked into her life and treated her like a lady. Janie wanted the attention and fell for the bait that Tea ... Cake fished out. She didn't love him; she just wanted to feel loved by someone. Tea Cake knew she had money from her marriage to Joe and wanted to support his gambling problem. Once again, Janie has chosen a dysfunctional marriage." In the first ... "seeing herself seeing herself" dr...

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... her. However, she does not love Logan and runs off with Jody. This marriage also turns stale and after Logan's death she marries once more to Tea Cake which eventually ends with his own tragic death. These three marriages are quite similar in ways, yet Janie gains different experiences from each in her long journey ... to Sop-de-Bottom, he said, "Ah beat her tuh show dem Turners who is boss."(141) Tea Cake even whips Janie to express his possession of her to Ms. Turner's brother. Even though Tea Cake just whips her to make sure he keeps her, Janie has to face being dominated in all her ...

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... two meet when Janie is left at the store while everyone else is at Winter Park. While making conversation, Vergible tells Janie that all his friends call him Tea Cake for short. From then on they both start to hang out with each other. Janie sells the store so the two of them get married and move to ... Jacksonville. From there they move down to the Everglades where they work during the harvesting season. While in the everglades, a hurricane passes over. That night, Tea Cake and Janie try to make their way out of the Everglades to make it to safety. While making their way out of the Ever...

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... mayor's wife, Janie encountered many suitors after Joe's death. She believed that they were in it for her wealth and was very skeptical of the men that confronted her. Tea Cake offered Janie a new direction and did not seem to care about her material wealth. He showed her a good time. Not only did she desire a marriage, but a friendship also, and she ... found this with Tea Cake. They were married, and he took her to live in the Everglades. She began to wear blue and the things that Tea Cake liked to see her in. She spoke her mind and acted on her instincts, never holding her feelings b...

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... searching for love. She turns down suitors and stays in her community. It almost seems that Janie has given-up on finding real love until Tea Cake walks in the door. Janie's reaction to Tea Cake is "He could be a bee to a blossom a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took ... . Spices hung about him, he was a glance from God"(106.) Though after a hesitation period, Janie finally lets her dream of love return to her and Tea Cake is the one who finally fulfills Janie's dream. He took Janie "from barren brown stems to glistening leaf b...

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Often, women are portrayed in weak roles, and decisions are made for them by men. In Alice in Wonderland and Corpses Bride both Alice and Emily are initially put into uncomfortable situations due to their femininity. Both females encounter unwanted marriages,but are able to follow their true desires ... eighteen For young women that reached this age during this time period were most likely already arranged to be married to someone of their class. In the film Alice in Wonderland nineteen year old Alice Kingsleigh is arranged to be married to Amish Ascots, son of Lord and Lady Ascots. Her moth...

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... her hair and her clothes (72-73). Janie finally finds herself enough to fight back against Joe's oppression of her. After Joe dies and Janie remarries to a man named Tea Cake, she faces a whole plethora of new challenges to overcome. Janie overcomes her fear of him leaving her the first day they are married. She also survives a hurricane with Tea ... he rescues her from a rabid dog and gets bitten himself. The greatest obstacle that Janie faces is having to shoot and kill a rabid Tea Cake to prevent him from killing her first. Janie's experiences with Tea Cake help her growth towards wo...

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... a mother's. Some people might claim that men can do whatever women can do such as housework, cooking and taking care of children. In the article, "The Train Cake" by Michael Dorris, even though he believed that he could achieve the status of being an "ideal parent" by himself without a wife, he had no choice but ... to ask help from his female friend, Nina, when he had to bake the train cake for his son, Adam's birthday. He did not know anything about baking the cakes; he had to seek help from who knew more about baking than he ... . If he had a traditional family, he would not need help...

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... she no longer needs to please another person. She is still looking for her perfect pear-blossom world, however. She finds it in one of the most unlikely places. Tea Cake is younger than she, poorer than she, and can offer her nothing but love. Fortunately, all Janie needs is love. He doesn't want to use her as a mule, or as ... they are both willing to sacrifice everything for each other. Janie is "thankful fuh anything [they came] through together" [158], and Tea Cake calls Janie "mah wife and mah woman and everything else in de world Ah needs" [119]. When she's with Tea Cake, Janie al...

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... Were Watching God, Janie Starks lives her life in a constant journey for true love. From the time when she is very young to her life before her last husband, Tea Cake, she is let down again and again. Janie grows up as a relatively happy child in a white southern plantation where her grandmother, Nanny, who works as a servant. She is very curious ... to him the next time he belittled her. Soon, Joe starts suffering from health problems and dies. Although she is in no rush to meet anyone new, Janie meets Tea Cake and marries for the third time. She feels as though despite the less glamor...

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