Serine Yahya
Mrs. Cooper
English II, Period 2
28 March 2016
Janie Finds Herself
Janie, the main character in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, is forced to do things she didn’t like in the beginning of the novel and then later created her own path leading her to her true identity. Janie left her suffocating life with her grandmother, to live with a man who she didn’t love, then ran off with another man to marry him, and finally ended up finding what she was looking for with a young man she married in the end.
Janie went through many situations before she was able to find her true voice. In the beginning with her grandmother she had to obey her and her rules. Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, was very protective over Janie. Nanny thought this was best for Janie because she knew what was good for her future. Nanny didn’t want Janie to be alone and wanted her to …show more content…
Jodie and Janie did have a loving relationship and they did care for each other but it didn’t end so well. When the people of the town said they wanted Janie to speak, Jodie didn’t allow it. They said, “ And now we’ll listen tuh uh few words uh encouragement from Mrs. Mayor Starks… She’s uh woman and her place is in de home” (Hurston 39). Janie didn’t like the way Jodie didn’t let her speak, she had stuff she wanted to say but Jodie thinks that women don’t have the intellectual capacity of men. This relationship didn’t help Janie in anyway for finding her voice, but everything happens for a reason. Janie and Jodie’s relationship was just leading her to what she’s always wanted. “Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass” (Hurston 87). After Jodie passed away Janie immediately took off her head rag that she was forced to wear and realized she didn’t lose her beauty it was just put on hold. Janie is going to find her voice, she just has to satisfy society first and pretend to mourn over
Mrs. Cooper
English II, Period 2
28 March 2016
Janie Finds Herself
Janie, the main character in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, is forced to do things she didn’t like in the beginning of the novel and then later created her own path leading her to her true identity. Janie left her suffocating life with her grandmother, to live with a man who she didn’t love, then ran off with another man to marry him, and finally ended up finding what she was looking for with a young man she married in the end.
Janie went through many situations before she was able to find her true voice. In the beginning with her grandmother she had to obey her and her rules. Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, was very protective over Janie. Nanny thought this was best for Janie because she knew what was good for her future. Nanny didn’t want Janie to be alone and wanted her to …show more content…
Jodie and Janie did have a loving relationship and they did care for each other but it didn’t end so well. When the people of the town said they wanted Janie to speak, Jodie didn’t allow it. They said, “ And now we’ll listen tuh uh few words uh encouragement from Mrs. Mayor Starks… She’s uh woman and her place is in de home” (Hurston 39). Janie didn’t like the way Jodie didn’t let her speak, she had stuff she wanted to say but Jodie thinks that women don’t have the intellectual capacity of men. This relationship didn’t help Janie in anyway for finding her voice, but everything happens for a reason. Janie and Jodie’s relationship was just leading her to what she’s always wanted. “Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass” (Hurston 87). After Jodie passed away Janie immediately took off her head rag that she was forced to wear and realized she didn’t lose her beauty it was just put on hold. Janie is going to find her voice, she just has to satisfy society first and pretend to mourn over