But she doesn’t want people to know how happy she is that he is dead. So she “[starches and irons] her face, forming it into just what people [want] to see” (Hurston 87). Contrast to Janie’s grief stricken
For example, just like Jody, Tea Cake also physically abuses Janie to display his authority over her. What makes Janie 's relationship with Tea Cake different from her other relationships is that it is based on a love that runs much deeper than her motivation in staying in her other relationships. Janie married Logan in search of love. She married Jody in search of wealth and his ambition. When both of these relationships failed, she entered into her relationship with Tea Cake with low expectations.
In the story's final chapter, soon after Tea Cake’s death, Janie returns to Eatonville and meets her old friend Pheoby. In this reunion, Janie shares her story and discloses the life lessons she has learned from her marriages with Logan, Jody, and Tea Cake. Janie’s
The way Jody treats Janie shows that male is still like the master of the house and the wife is there to follow his demands. We see this controlling demand throughout the time Janie spends with Jody. Janie continues on with her life to eventually meet the love of her life Tea cake. This starting out raised questions on how her 3rd marriage was going to work out after how bad all the other ones have been for Janie. When Tea Cake hits Janie it seems as almost Janie could be going back towards another failed relationship.
Hurston describes Janie’s quest to finding love and to recovering herself, though
Spiritual he made Janie feel trapped because she couldn’t do anything, and he always make her work in the store. When Joe died it gave her the physical growth to finally take off her head rag as symbolizing her freedom. The author say’s “she tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair” (Hurston 87). Now that Joe represented those things in Janie life. Her last husband Tea Cake also will represent in Janis’s emotional, spiritual, and physical
In the beginning Janie feels as if Tea Cake’s age would effect their relationship. She has strong feelings for him, but on the other hand people are saying he will run off with her money. Janie proves them wrong and runs off and gets married to Tea Cake. He makes Janie feel wanted, she feels like she could be herself. Janie states, "We been tuhgether round two years.
“Where he left her?” This quote from one of the porch dwellers explains how Janie had just come out of a relationship with Teacake, and
In The Eyes are Watching God, the author Zora Neale Hurston expresses the struggles of women and black societies of the time period. When Hurston published the book, communities were segregated and black communities were full of stereotypes from the outside world. Janie, who represents the main protagonist and hero, explores these communities on her journey in the novel. Janie shows the ideals of feminism, love, and heroism in her rough life in The Eyes. Janie, as the hero of the novel, shows the heroic qualities of determination, empathy, and bravery.
However, Janie is an African-American woman that has an overprotective grandmother, who insists that her granddaughter gets married pronto. Nonetheless, in the long run, she realizes that love she can turn and change when it is compared to the start of each of her relationships. Noticeably, when she is with Jody, a mayor of Eatonville, instead of providing her with protection after being married for nearly twenty years, he violently assaults her. Additionally, after she gets remarried to Tea Cakes, she is faced with the fact that he got rabies and has become paranoiac as he thinks that Janie is unfaithful, causing him to threaten her existence with a gun, eventually making her to kill her to save her own life.
Janie’s relation with Joes till his death is another step to realize the real meaning of domination and liberation. The moment that Janie kills her third husband Tea Cake is a must in the novel. Although Tea Cake liberated Janie from two different kinds of domination for a period of time but he turns to practice another kind of domination through his physical abuse and his jealousy; so his murder is a momentary freedom for Janie. Janie in her development and growth contends to replace the old culture concept that places women’s wishes on material and economic demands by love and affection.
Janie reacts in different ways to people in her life trying to control her, and this can be seen with Grannie, Jody, and Tea Cake. Grannie forces her to marry Logan, but Janie stands up for herself when she decides to leave him after Grannie dies. Throughout the novel Janie is looking for love, and she
When tea cake shows up janie 's feels something she has never felt before, she is set free but the townspeople don 't think so. “‘Ain’t you skeered he’s jes after yo’ money him bein’ younger than you?’” (Hurston pg.133)Janie is in love with Tea Cake because he loves her for her youthful young side that was forced into hiding for so long because of her previous husbands. However the rest of the community is discouraging her and trying to keep her in the image as a mayor 's wife. They told Janie that Tea Cake was after her money
The 2006 British film “The Queen” depicts events that unfolded after the death of Princess Diana in 1997. In the film, the British Royal Family did not react the way the public expected them to. Due to their lack of grief that was publicly shown towards Princess Diana’s death, it resulted in their actions being heavily criticised by British media and the public. Newly elected Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had to step in to help the Royal Family deal with their bad relations to the public, with the help of Diana’s ex-husband, Prince Charles. From the in-depth movie analysis, this essay will be able to show that the media is able to influence the people and their stance towards certain topics by applying these media theories: agenda setting through gatekeeping, dramatization, and two-step flow of communication.
She holds him in her arms crying. Tea Cake never bites Janie, one of the most important scenes in the book left out to create a love story. Their relationship turns into a love story in the
