Cakes

marriage with Tea Cake. While Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship is relatively positive, Janie becomes jealous of Nunkie, a chunky girl working with Tea Cake. As jealousy begins to cloud her judgement, she begins to suspect him of being unfaithful, so she confronts him. After catching them wrestling with each other in private, Janie begins to beat Tea Cake and screams that she believes “...you been messin’ round her!” (131). Janie’s radical vocal and physical confrontation of Tea Cake exhibits…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston writes a story that revolutionizes and contradicts the traditional gender roles of the 1930’s. The basis of this book is about the ever-changing love life about a young girl named Janie. Throughout her various marriages, she becomes versed in herself and in the end, learns to be self-reliant and not reliable on others. Her first marriage was set up on a false hope. Every grandmother’s hope for her grandchild is to be married and…

Their Eyes Were Watching God, one of the most influential novels to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, plays a crucial role in revealing the deep-rooted issue of misogyny during the era. As the protagonist, Janie Crawford, navigates the complexities of her three marriages, Zora Neale Hurston delves into the core of human emotion to develop Janie’s character throughout the novel. As Janie witnesses the deaths of her three marriages, she is transformed from a silenced wife to an icon of feminism;…

Friendship: a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. True friendship is so loosely defined that even a dictionary definition is not truly correct, as a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people can relate to unfriendly situations that are both mutual, as well. Having true friendship and love are both defined through the eyes of the beholder, yet there are specific parts that make up each situation. In the novels The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien and…

enjoying themselves, a hot summer day outside with their friends and family at Canada’s Wonderland. The sun today looked as cheerful as ever. There are stores with all kinds of foods you would enjoy at an amusement park. Candy apple stores, funnel cake houses, slushy stalls and more. Everyone is talking to one another, in their own little world. The workers at Wonderland are speaking through the microphones telling…

relationships, and diseases/illnesses. My favorite reality show is Cake Boss. It doesn’t help people like the others do but it is very entertaining for me. Cake Boss centers on a close Italian family at a bakery that was first started by now-owner, Buddy Valastro’s father. They have made so many unique cakes based on what the customer wants. He even made a cake for his wife that was a bust of her head. They also made a cake modeled after a toilet for a plumber that was retiring. They even…

He is an ambitious entrepreneur searching for business. Jody’s ambitiousness to have the perfect role in society neglects him from seeing Janie as his wife. Instead, he sees her as a trophy, or as the “icing on the cake.” Jody does not allow Janie to flaunt her beautiful hair and often does not let her engage in entertaining activities. His role in the novel is his influence on Janie. Janie knows that there is more to love than Jody and so she gains the courage to…

later helps Senor Ines “pass the cake around.”(Heker 3) A birthday crown generally is worn by the rich and powerful meaning that Luciana is in a higher social class. Luciana’s physical crown show real power and royalty. While Rosaura has her imaginary crown symbolising that she is poor and of a lower social class. The cake in the story could also be a symbol for the social pyramid. Each layer of the cake resembles a level of the social pyramid. Also on a layered cake as it gets higher the levels…

match. In The Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses Tea Cake and Janie to symbolize true love; they express their loyalty, trust and communication to one another. Firstly, when in a relationship one must establish a line of loyalty. A good and healthy relationship has loyalty where one can hold each other intention to connect and have communication that does not involve other people in their business, (Black). When Janie was getting to know Tea Cake, she was slowly giving him, her full attention…

course of the book make her look strong and vulnerable. When she was married to Logan Killicks, she was very young and naive. In her marriage to Joe Starks, twenty years of abuse and yelling made her more strong as a person before his death. With Tea Cake, however, she was very happy. He saved her life in the hurricane of the Florida Glades, even though he eventually got rabies from the rabid dog that was onto Janie. This story makes life during the Harlem Renaissance look very harsh and…