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seem to be frightened whenever Janie shows her masculinity. They beat Janie “to show he was boss” (Hurston 147), but it rather represents men's insecurity. It reaches to the point when “beating [becomes] the reason Hurston permits Janie to kill Tea Cake” (Jordan). Especially Jody does not like Janie being with the community and letting her hair down because it means Janie’s growth of power. He also collapses immediately when Janie insults him whereas Janie remains strong every time he insults…

gives up on the idea that marriage equals everlasting love until Tea Cake shows up. Finally, when Tea Cake appears he brings her a new life of freedom and her love for him lasts until the very end. The idea of love in Janie’s mind changes drastically from husband to husband until she…

awaited death of her husband, she ends up keeping the store where she meets a young, charming man named Tea Cake. She finally feels that she found her soulmate, but then loses him to rabies due to a dog bite from when he was saving her life. After all this, she goes back to her hometown in Eatonville and after reflection with her close friend Pheoby, finds peace in the memory of Tea Cake. With this in mind, after all the drama that Janie ends up going through I feel that this novel is a story…

helping make something from nothing; but baby diapers, clothes, blankets, towels, and toys. My aunt, whom I was doing this for, had picked a diaper cake in advance, but my concern was that in order to make that design you would need to hot glue the diapers together, making them useless. So I told her that I would make one based off of that cake, but in a different manner so that the diapers could still be used. So to make sure the…

this in her life, further investigation shows us how Janie's relationship with Logan, Jody, and Tea Cake throughout the text leads her to self fulfillment…

Janie had been married twice before Tea Cake, both which has been failures. Both of her previous husbands have been commanders and dominators who did not respect Janie’s opinions nor did they care for her. Janie had been a source of utility for Logan, while Joe kept Janie like a treasure meant to be looked at and nothing more. These did not match up with her dreams of love and being loved. Tea Cake is different from her previous relationships in which she has a voice that matters, and the two…

However, we do not so much time to make them today and we usually buy moon cakes in the supermarket. It usually takes much time to prepare a meal of “Nine Bowls and Three Lines”, as the meat balls are all made by my mother, grandmother, and aunts instead of bought outside. My parents, my uncles and aunts all live in other provinces…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the setting has a huge impact on both the storyline and characters. Janie spends her life in both rural and urban parts of the state of Florida. The urban place she lived in is called Eatonville, and the rural place is called “The Muck.” One of the settings, Eatonville is the center of vice and corruption. It represents Janie’s confinement and sadness while she lived with her second husband, Jody Starks. Eatonville is so small…

janie didn't mind tea cakes hits. she knew she didn't do anything wrong-she knew it was out of love. Throughout the novel, Tea Cake-as any other husband would- made mistakes in his marriage. Janie wouldn't get enraged, wouldn't hit or scream: she would just answer with silence. With this silence, it was all the communication she needed, that empowerment over him. Losing a loved one can be very hard, but it can also be a lesson. In janie's situation, she had to kill tea cake but learned that she…

Money Doesn 't Buy Happiness As the Beatles once sang, “Money can’t buy me love.” These words ring true for both real and fictional characters alike. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston, Janie learns that money does not in fact buy happiness or love. She discovers the morals of wealth with the three men she was married to. Janie was 16 years old when her Nanny gave her away to a man named Logan Killicks because he had 60 acres and was considered wealthy. Her grandmother…