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David, contrary to Reb is a very open minded person with his tolerance of and respect for a variety of traditions. "What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something"(217). After David gains knowledge of the Holocaust he changes from an easygoing father to an impassioned Zionist activist. His growing feelings that it is not enough to waist passively for biblical prophesy, as Reb does. Rather David feels it is up to mankind to make sense of the suffering due to the Holocaust. Arguably David appears the admirable character due to his open mind on religious traditions. .
             Subsequently, Tea Cake Woods and Joe Starks, characters from Their Eyes Were Watching God, differ greatly. Joe Starks is a person with a very dominate personality. He is one to need to control anything and everything around him. As he does with Janie by forcing her wear her hair up because it threatens his dominate man hood. "Everybody can't be lak you, Jody. Somebody is bound tuh want tuh laugh and play- (Hurston 62). He marries Janie not because he loves her, he views her as an object to fulfill his dreams. He sees her as a beautiful young lady who would look perfect as the mayor's wife. He treats her badly and Janie ultimately rebels against Joe's dominate behavior, by toppling his sense of his own power, she destroys his will to live. "Naw, Ah ain't no young gal no mo' but den Ah ain't no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah'm uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it Dat's uh whole lot more'n you kin say. You big-bellies round here and put a lot of brag, but tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' bout me lookin' .
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             old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life- (78).


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