The only reason she stayed with Logan was because she was following her Nanny's orders. With her first dream of love and self-discovery destroyed her tone had changed. She no longer wanted to keep partaking in that part of her life. Shortly after, Janie meets a man named Jody Starks. They instantly hit it off and continued to see each other. A couple weeks later Jody told her that he would wait for her a little before sun up because he was leaving for Green Cove Springs that day and wanted her to come and be his wife. Later that night there was a conflict between Logan and Janie. Their argument reassured her to continue to follow her dreams of love and self-discovery.
Jody Starks married Janie at the very first opportunity they had and took her to a town where only a small population of black folks lived. She liked that Jody was financially stable but she also liked that she was able to look at him and not think that he was unattractive. Since Jody is a wealthy black man he had enough money to make their new town come alive. Folks within the town instantly made Jody the major because of all the money he had and all the new additions he made to the town. For instance, he added a store, a post office, and even light poles. Jody wanted Janie to run the store for him while he was out increasing control over the town and the others. People within their town began to characterize Janie as a beautiful woman. Jody began to notice how the other men within the town gawked at her and enjoyed her long beautiful hair. It forced him to become jealous and protective. He ordered her that "her hair was NOT going to show in the store" (Hurston, 55). Although Janie didn't like having to always put her hair up for work she did as she was told. When Jody became more familiar with the people within the town they started gathering outside of his big nice house for games of checkers and laughter. Unfortunately for Janie, Jody didn't let her join in on the games and gossip with others in the town.
Janie's experience underneath the pear tree affects her views of love and her decisions for the rest of her life. Hurston uses words and phrases like: virginity, gold, panting breath, sanctum of a bloom, arch to meet the love embrace, and frothing in delight, all of which are connected to sexua...
" The imagery details how once the light of the day is gone, the town becomes comfortable to express their thoughts. ... They passed nations through their mouths. ... They feel high and mighty by exercising their opinions and judgements, as if they are a judge issuing a verdict in court. ... But women act in the present, their dreams have to fit within reality, and that is how they must live their lives; they aren't afforded the luxury to dream and hope for their lives as they'd please. ... In the final two paragraphs, "They scrambled a noisy "good evenin'" ...
The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... Their talents helped to motivate Morrison to write about the things that she is most familiar with, such as her African American culture. ... She believes that it reminds people about their heritage and shows them their place in the community. ... Expanding on the representation of Jesus or God in The Bluest Eye, Alexander understands the problem of how a ...
Through the analysis of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Shelley's Frankenstein, Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, it is not difficult to draw the common thread between the five literary pieces: the setting of each propagates an emotional conflict that guides the protagonist' actions and thoughts. ... It is also the setting where Victor creates the monster that destroys his family and leads to the emotional devastation of his own life ""when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, m...
He is systematically brainwashed, made to watch his comrades and converts die for his sake. ... The Japanese officials were cunning in using the peasants, almost as blackmail, in order to force the missionaries to recant their faith. It is one thing to endure suffering, it is quite another to watch a loved one go through it. ... His father was indolent; a debtor and a "weak- individual in Okonkwo's eyes. ... His actions, though understandable, were inherently selfish, and his "cause- was mostly personal. ...
She's portrayed as Carl Jung's psychological analysis of Self. ... When Addie finally dies in her bed, after her life of pride, "Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candlesticks." ... Dewey Dell truly is a creator of earthly existence, serving as a literary figure of reality and facts. Such is true when she's riding on the wagon to New Hope, stating, "I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God." ...
Morrison describes how African-American girls during this time period were encouraged to aspire to be white. ... The literary lenses I will use to demonstrate Morrison's intent will be based on Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye's various literary theories. ... Pecola Breedlove is a young black girl who is the hero in this analysis. ... Due to the notion of where beauty lies that was implanted in her mind at such a young age she is obsessed with the need to achieve this beauty and longs to obtain blue eyes as it occurs to Pecola that "if her eyes were different, that is to s...
During the romantic Americn literary history, Natheneil Hawthorne ranks first in nearly everyone's mind. ... They were so free from the control of Britain that their economy, especially, the commerce and the society had greatly developed and it was along with the independent awareness --- the American Nation formed and the American people tried to govern their own country by their own will. ... They formed their religious community and set up a civil government for the general good of the colonies they were going to found in New England. ... Hester and Chillingworth were both the immi...
Thus, people could obviously secure larger and more reliable satisfactions than by their individual or family efforts. ... Family drama, or "domestic" drama, is centered on characters‟ intimate relationships, their actions towards each other and their responses to the surrounding circumstances and events. ... Specifically, Stephanie Coontz, in "The Way We Never Were" (1992), refers to a „family drama‟ as "a staged play that contains any group of two or more persons who engage in ongoing intimacy and obligation, whether they do so because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice.... Th...
