“So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule ud de world so fur as Ah can see."
In this metaphor, Nanny tells Janie that the African American women are the mule of the world. Nanny starts it off by talking about a white man being on top of the society and looking down at African American people. This “load” they talk about would be something like a burden. The African American males do not want a burden so they just give it to the African American women and they have to deal with everything. Nanny sees this way of life due to the fact she was a slave. Nanny relates the Black women with a mule because they both are used to carry things for others.[A] …show more content…
It is also ironic that Tea Cake says that “Else dey’d own dis country still” because they African Americans did not own it either, it was the white people who owned it.[B]
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish aboard.”
This passage starts off the entire book, it basically puts you in a spot where you can see your destined future/ hopes and they are almost within grasp across the distance but you could never know if that would actually make you happy or not. This goes in with the story because she had 3 husbands and each one was had different outcomes.[C]
"Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on." (2.27)
This shaped Janie into what she was because she learned how to separate her outside and her inside. This impacted Janie a lot because she really did not know what she wanted and this helped her due to the fact that she had multiple husbands and got to be able to test out what she
In this metaphor, Nanny tells Janie that the African American women are the mule of the world. Nanny starts it off by talking about a white man being on top of the society and looking down at African American people. This “load” they talk about would be something like a burden. The African American males do not want a burden so they just give it to the African American women and they have to deal with everything. Nanny sees this way of life due to the fact she was a slave. Nanny relates the Black women with a mule because they both are used to carry things for others.[A] …show more content…
It is also ironic that Tea Cake says that “Else dey’d own dis country still” because they African Americans did not own it either, it was the white people who owned it.[B]
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish aboard.”
This passage starts off the entire book, it basically puts you in a spot where you can see your destined future/ hopes and they are almost within grasp across the distance but you could never know if that would actually make you happy or not. This goes in with the story because she had 3 husbands and each one was had different outcomes.[C]
"Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on." (2.27)
This shaped Janie into what she was because she learned how to separate her outside and her inside. This impacted Janie a lot because she really did not know what she wanted and this helped her due to the fact that she had multiple husbands and got to be able to test out what she