A Comparison Of Their Eyes Were Watching God And A Raisin In The Sun

Growing up everyone has something called a dream. Some may have dreams as small as creating a lemonade stand and some may have dreams as big as creating a worldwide company. Two characters named Janie and Walter in separate books; Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God and Walter from A Raisin In The Sun, both had goals and aspirations that they wanted to accomplish. Janie’s ambitions in the novel were summarized by something called the pear tree goal. This goal consisted of sexuality, maturity, marriage, freedom, and family. In the book A Raisin in the Sun Walters dream was to own a liquor store with money that was from his mother. In both of these characters having and chasing dreams Janie was more successful at achieving her dream. The

She first aquired the goal of freedom when she left her first husband Logan Killicks. This is true because the book says “The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet” Chapter 4 page 38-39 This excerpt shows us that the apron that she was wearing was like a burden and the picking of the flowers represents a fresh start. The second time Janie accomplished the goal of freedom was when Jody Starks died. The evidence of her reaching the goal at this point is in this quote “She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair.” This quote shows that Janie was free after Jody died because while they were married Jody did not let Janie have her hair down instead he made her tie it up. The action of her taking off the kerchief shows that she is being freed. The last goal on Janie’s list was maturity. Janie accomplished this goal early in her life. While in her first marriage with Logan Killicks, Janie learns a valuable lesson marriage did not make love. The evidence that she learned this lesson is in this quote “She knew now that marriage did not make love.” Janie became mature when she learned this lesson because throughout the whole book she was very “kept to herself”. After she realized that Jody was basically using her as a trophy wife she started to lose interest, but the moment that Tea Cake came into her life she started to open up. This is being said to prove the point that Janie was no longer naive to what real love